Word: useful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market value of the General Investment Fund has grown faster than expenses, from $108 million in 1929 to approximately $595 million by Sept. 30 of this year. In 1958-9 the University received $28,516,505 in gifts for capital and an additional $9,669,260 for current use...
...regard to the use of weed killer on cranberries, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Flemming indicated that it caused cancer in rats. It occurred to me that the cranberry growers would have been happier if Mr. Flemming had simply made clear that cranberries should not be fed to rats...
...Draper Jr., investment banker and industrialist? The Draper committee's recommendation: the U.S.. as part of its foreign aid program, should heed requests for assistance from nations trying to curb runaway population. Mindful of the furor raised by the U.S. Catholic bishops' recent statement opposing such use of U.S. funds (TIME, Dec. 7), Ike gave the question an answer calculated to snuff it out as a political issue...
...last convention (TIME, Sept. 7), but the integrationists lost. Authorized by his executive committee to the necessary steps, the Legion's new National Commander, Martin McKneally, Newburgh (N.Y.) lawyer and World War II Army major, last week did just that. He ousted the 40 & 8, forbade it to use the American Legion name, emblem or any other Legion connection...
Among those scheduled for donations are President Pusey and several other prominent University officials. But in spite of the record number of faculty members who have registered to donate, precedent indicates that the faculty will still use more blood in the next year than they give this week...