Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertising man, I get my money's worth in TIME (16? including sales tax) reading ads. In TIME, Aug. 21, p. 34 you carry Lockheed brakes. Smart Bell Telephone shows its interest in synchronized advertising by using opposite column same page showing Lockheed in classified telephone directory. Then on next page is the new ingenious Willard battery...
...also might interest Mr. Brewster to know that the 120 million people in the U. S. own and use many more electric appliances than all of Europe's 550 million persons put together...
...intact brains. [They] . . . respond to food more quickly ... exhibit much greater vigor in flight reactions, exhibit less caution. . . . The operation seems to improve their personalities, but their social relations are completely lost." Fishman Noble also noted that the sex glands of partially de-brained fish degenerate and they lose interest in breeding. When pituitary hormones are injected the fish swim out in search of mates again, although they no longer hatch eggs in the same seasons as the rest of their friends...
...September. The A. P. had four times as many men in Europe as it had at any time during the last war. Last week the A. P. sent a man 350 miles from Rome to the heel of Italy to get a 200-word story whose chief item of interest was that the Italian remount service was inspecting the local donkeys. In July 1914, Karl von Wiegand cabled the U. P. 138 words on the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia and was called down for wasting tolls...
...suit was against its onetime president, jut-jawed Charles Godfrey Guth, who in 1931 had bought for his own account a controlling interest in, Pepsi-Cola Co., a puny contender in the soft-drink market (annual sales about $33,000). By whirlwind promotion, including sales in Loft...