Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farley, who can talk out on occasion, was mum about his trip. But along the way he had dropped some significant remarks. To the Texas Legislature: "I sincerely hope and trust by the time another Presidential election rolls around we'll have this war behind us so we will be able to decide the Presidency on domestic issues. . . ." To newsmen in Dallas: "I hope the voters pick the Democrats in 1944-but if they don't, it's all right with...
Stolid, stocky Chang Chun, 55, "the Gissimo's one-man brain trust," is Governor of Szechwan and leader of the top-notch circle of industrial planners known as the Political Science Group. An able administrator, he has done an admirable job since 1940 of breaking Chungking's province to the Government yoke. He should not be confused with Chen Cheng, 43, able young general commanding the central front and representative of the most influential field officers...
...Competition is the real key to the enterprise system. . . . Every unnecessary curb on competition is a curb on opportunities for Americans-a curb on jobs, on higher standards of living. That's why the principles of the Anti-Trust laws are endorsed by American industry...
...trouble as his business. Having given away some $60,000,000 he swore he would give no more. But last week he headed into more trouble: for scientific and medical research, public health, social studies, and "the care and comfort of aged people" he created a $40,000,000 trust fund. Peacetime automaker (Morris, Wolseley), Lord Nuffield is now one of Britain's main armorers, also one of her most unreconstructed individualists. Chief financial angel of Oxford University, he was once so moved by Oxonians' eloquent thanks to him at a platform ceremony that he abruptly rose...
First break for Bob Young came when MOP security holders voted on the ICC plan and more than one-third of them turned it down. Meanwhile Young proposed four MOP directors and saw them elected. Then he convinced potent Massachusetts Investors Trust and some of the smaller insurance companies that his plan was best. Lastly he got the unexpected help of the war boom. MOP's net available for dividends soared from a loss of $9,564,000 in 1940 to a record $30,600,000 in 1942. Meanwhile, the once-rickety road was put in tiptop condition, with...