Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backbreaking burden of U.S. railroads is their mountain of fixed charges (bond interest, equipment rentals, taxes, sinking fund requirements), a load greater than that of any other U.S. industry. Last week, the ICC released startling 1943 figures: for the first time in U.S. history, along with dividends and other income the railroads earned enough ($596,228,149) in the first five months to pay fixed charges for the entire year...
Joshi's Program. Monocled Jinnah, with his Bond Street clothes, his rich palace at Bombay and his Moslem belief in violence, has gained power through reviving the Moslems' vanished pride in their onetime imperial greatness and through brilliantly, if not always logically, espousing Moslem grievances against the Hindus...
Hearts and Beasts. Cinema stars, in ratio to the tender age of their trade, took a less active part than they do today. Pin-up girls were as likely to come from the Police Gazette as from movie magazines. The bond-selling tours of such figures as Fairbanks. Pickford, Hart and Chaplin, though vociferous, were mild compared with the riotous junkets of World War II. Even the publicity stunts had a certain innocence. Sample: Mary Pickford's "adoption" of 600 men of the 2nd Battalion, ist California Field Artillery, each of whom wore her picture in a gold locket...
...Northern Ireland, tootled, thumped and groaned through Oh, Susanna! and Garryowen. Last week the Marine pipers swelled with pride as well as wind: Scottish pipe band associations had invited them over to participate in their contests; they were also billed as the star attraction at a Wings for Victory bond rally at Larne, Northern Ireland...
...America as a place where U.S. high financiers make a lot of no-good loans may soon change their minds. The case for a change of mind was last week put by a man who has watched Latin America grow, and from the inside: James S. Carson of Electric Bond & Share Co. (whose American & Foreign Power subsidiary has had plenty of financial troubles in selling electricity to eleven Latin American republics, but still has a larger investment south of the border than any other North American corporation). Blunt James Carson, speaking for the National Foreign Trade Council, quietly pointed...