Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paradoxically, the Trust Territory is pinning its hopes of combatting the African snail on another recently introduced predator snail, which eats the African snail alive. Theoretically, when the predator has consumed all the African snails it will die of a lack of food, and the snails will vanish. As a practical matter, however, les escargots will probably be with us indefinitely...
...manage pension and trust funds for workers have a prime problem. How can they invest the $2,500,000,000 to $3 billion that is pouring into the funds each year? Three months ago, Manhattan Realtor Louis Sachar, who heads Marshall Management Corp. and owns or has interests in 85 buildings in New York City, decided to help them with a new investment idea. He persuaded two pension funds to pool part of their cash with his organization and form a real-estate buying group with capital of $140 million. Although Sachar has kept the name of the funds secret...
...saying that he shared all its fears: "The army must not be a state within a state. Parliamentary control must be made stronger than was formerly the case in Germany." Not one of these limitations, objected the opposition, was spelled out in the bill. And while the Bundestag might trust Adenauer, it did not trust the old army elite, and did not want an army born before the limitations on its officers' responsibilities were well understood in advance...
...Founder Fee himself was mobbed and beaten no fewer than 13 times. Nevertheless, in 1866, the faculty was back again to make the daring announcement that Berea would take in Negroes. Even when Kentucky's Day Law of 1904 specifically forbade the practice, Berea remained faithful to its trust. It dipped into its meager savings and with $400,000 started the Lincoln Institute to take care of those whom until 1950 it could not legally accept...
...captain. "For God's sake, come on," squeaked Trimmer from the small boat, as the sappers returned. "Be of good comfort, Master Trimmer, and play the man," urged the press officer. "We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out." After the press man edited the exploit, of course, the haircutter became England's darling and the War Cabinet itself deliberated over where his prowess might next be suitably employed...