Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they skimmed off $275 million annually in dividends and interest, many U.S. investors wondered why more Canadians didn't get in on a good thing. Was there a lack of Canadian capital? Up to a point, there was, but the shortage was partly due to a shortage of Canadians (12.8 million v. 148.5 million U.S. population). Moreover, many a Canadian in the chips wanted to play it safe. He put his money in the more conservative wood pulp, paper and textile industries, left such speculative fields as oil to gambling Americans with specialized know...
...outlived her time, has fallen into neglect since the war. It has been hard for the old girl even to get her name in the cramped newspapers. But in socialist Britain, royalty's duty is the same as it has been: to set an example of good manners to every class. It is Princess Margaret's particular task to extend her hand to passee old Dame Society, and make it seem that everyone is having a ripping time at her parties. Newspapers write about a party that Margaret goes to; they report her every dance, her every glance...
...first good look the world had of the sisters together was when they stood side by side at their father's coronation, wearing identical robes of royal purple, trimmed with ermine. Reporters, cameramen and radio commentators were fascinated at the sight of six-year-old Margaret yawning, stretching, tapping her silver slippers, riffling through the pages of a prayerbook, and tickling her sister, while eleven-year-old Elizabeth frowned and nudged her in lofty, outraged dignity. The reporters might have been even more fascinated had they been in the palace earlier and seen Princess Margaret kick...
Snakes' Chase. Even so, the critics could find nothing but good in Rudi Bing's reputation. He had learned the opera business from the ground up -in Vienna, in Berlin, and since 1934 in England. He was well aware that "the artistic and commercial ends of opera management chase each other like a snake biting its own tail." He was hopeful about the unions. During the war, when Glyndebourne shut up shop, he had worked his way from clerk to the front office of a London department store. "I got on all right with the shop assistants; perhaps...
...Moore selects his drivers more carefully than a horse trainer selects a jockey. His pit technique is unbeatable. During Holland's one pit stop last week, two front tires were changed and 15 gallons of fuel blown into the tank from pressurized drums in 52 seconds. That was good enough, but it did not equal Moore's own record of 49 seconds for a major pit stop of a winning car, established eight years...