Word: concerning
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...Unlike industries requiring a substantial capital investment" (in New York City, which accounts for 56% of millinery production, total equipment is estimated at $1,000,000), "hard times produce an increase in the number of millinery manufacturers. The failure of one concern results in the formation of three or four new concerns, for the owners, salesmen and factory workers of the firm which goes out of business . . . start new factories of their...
...form and substance, the YCL statement shows that its primary concern is with Russia's welfare, not America's. The Communists want us to stay out of war, not so much to help ourselves as to spare Russia...
...diplomatist, Her Majesty did not have many serious problems to be clever about in the first part of her reign. There was friction with Venezuela over the Dutch-owned islands of Curasao; the problem of protecting trade interests in Turkey and China; concern over Mexico's program, even then taking shape, of annexing foreign oil properties...
...copra as a basis for facial creams, lizard skins for shoes and handbags, Sumatra wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teakwood, ebony and macassar oil, and even the bare-breasted women of Bali, tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overseas a going concern...
These questions are the main concern nowadays of dark, academically-bent Dan Golenpaul, originator of Information Please. An editorial board of Manhattan literati helps him sift them each week, picking tough ones, tossing out triteness or trouble. Current politics, controversies, affairs, etc., are generally taboo. Biblical allusions are out, too, ever since John Kieran attributed a bit of Scripture to "the Bronx version," and brought on a flood of sanctimonious protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner...