Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't much care how important Albania's oil is to Mussolini until I noticed widely divergent estimates expressed in TIME and in TIME'S sister magazine, LIFE. Now I'm really curious...
...parents, she fretted about telling her children that they were adopted. She finally solved her problem by doing a picture book for them about a Man and His Wife who were "happily married for many years. Their one trouble was that they had no babies of their own." The care they take in selecting a baby and the care the orphanage takes in checking on the foster parents-even peeking under their beds for dust (see cut)-are all described so as to reassure the children that being adopted is a highly respectable thing. This week Dr. Wasson published...
Adoption agencies choose parents with great care, usually prefer couples around 30 years of age who are in good health, have secure incomes and sunny dispositions and homes. Although there is no rule against giving children to well-settled single persons, the demand for children far exceeds the supply and childless couples have first choice. Greatest difficulty agencies have is discouraging people over 50, who insist on adopting infants. Average age of foster parents, however, is around 40, since most persons wait for adoption until they are convinced that they can have no children of their own. Great- est favorites...
Cheerful were most first quarter earning reports sent last week to stockholders. For 188 large industrials, profits were up 110% over the first quarter of 1938, for General Motors and Chrysler profits were up about 600%. But businessmen, like baseball fans, no longer care who won the last World Series. They are already figuring on second quarter earnings...
...Negro handyman in Knoxville, who "jest don't care nothin' about a stiddy job." Says Joe: "The Lord cut me out in the shape of a man that's naturally made to have a good time. But he didn't give me the money to have that good time...