Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demanded that contract bridge be made a part of the curriculum. Besides teaching youngsters 1) citizenship, 2) mathematics, 3) how to think, they declared that contract bridge was necessary to their children's vocational training. Explained Mrs. D. R. Minton: "I feel contract bridge is a social asset for my daughter's later life...
This bit of fluff was Zanuck's choice for Shirley Temple's 22nd feature-length film and final picture for Fox, where she was the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction for four years, an Oscar winner, the corporation's biggest single asset. The opening scenes of Young People, covering her progress from waif to world wonder, permit two shots from her earlier films when her wobbly dancing warmed the hearts of millions. Now & then she rasps out such reminiscent ditties as Young People...
...last week many a corporation had reported its earnings for 1940's first six months. The reports made cheerful reading. In the grand dance of the current boom there have been few big-asset, big-name wallflowers...
...Problem. Dangerous as Hitler is, the U. S. is no mean adversary for him, provided it takes the steps necessary to prepare for the expected challenge. On the asset side the U. S. is already a great, rich, well-fed, homogeneous nation compared to Hitler's Europe which is half-starved and polyglot, with its industrial resources disrupted and partially destroyed by war. The U. S. is likewise, as of the present moment, a far greater naval power. If Britain is beaten, the U.S. will also have one new strength: no longer will citizens have any feeling that steps...
Also running last week were two political freaks: Ramon de la Paz, a gay druggist of Mexicali, Lower California, whose only political asset was his name, which means "peace"; and General Sanchez Tapia, whose only expectation from the campaign seemed to be to get some advertising for his Jersey dairy farm near Mexico City...