Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koussevitzky is beginning the Sanders Theatre series of the Boston Symphony tonight with a thoroughly orthodox program of works by Berlioz, Mozart, and Dvorak. Frankly, the program sounds like a Sunday evening Pops concert; certainly, it shows little of the customary interest for which Koussevitzky as a program builder, has become justly famous. Recalling with extreme satisfaction the magnificent reading of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony which began last season's concerts, the Symphony in E minor, "From the New World" by Dvorak, is something of a letdown. We cannot believe that Koussevitzky was governed in his choice by the holiday...
Each graduate school or department, according to the plan, will cover material of timely interest in its particular field...
...maker of electrical equipment* issued a simple folder breaking down operations for the nine years 1929-1937 into one-syllable categories. Total income was $1.261.313,000. Deducting sums "paid out for materials, supplies, fuels, transportation ... set aside to replace plants and equipment as they wear out . . . paid in interest on borrowed money" and disbursed as taxes, Westinghouse had "left for our employees, for our stockholders and for future needs" $669,490.000. Of this, employees got $589.091,000, or 46.7% of total income, in wages and salaries. Group insurance premiums and payments to the employe annuity fund took...
...inventing the luxury hotel, Ritz perforce had to pay attention to plumbing, and this led him to an interest in hygiene in general. At a time when even palaces stank with clogged drains, Ritz put in modern plumbing; in addition he threw out heavy, germ-catching furnishings, gave every room a southern exposure. Within a short time the Paris Ritz became known as the best sanatorium in Europe...