Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest of accuracy, it should be mentioned that in recent years about one-tourth of this water has passed through the penstocks and turbines of the power plants on the American and Canadian shores and consequently did not "cascade over Niagara Falls...
...brick house behind Pasadena, rides and plays a little tennis, but has little time for social doings and no time for country clubs. Most of the time he works. Unlike Jimmy Roosevelt, son of another U. S. President, who lives only 20 miles away, Herbert Hoover Jr., has no interest whatever in politics...
...Venice. In the past this annual, late-summer gathering to pick the world's best films has chosen such universally acclaimed cinemas as Man of Aran, Anna Karenina, Mayerling, La Kermesse Héroïque. But two years ago B. Mussolini began to take a personal, political interest in the cinema business, and last year cinemindustries not bedded in the Rome-Berlin axis began to feel its centrifugal force. The No. 1 prize, the Mussolini Cup, went jointly to Nazi Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 Olympic Games film (four hours running time) and to Vittorio Mussolini...
...deposited with a totally separate banking company set up under State banking laws and supervised and examined periodically by State banking authorities just like any other bank. The store itself never sees a red penny of these deposits until after a purchase has been made," in fact customers receive interest on them...
Said he: "In the interest of good business, the Street simply cannot afford any avoidable major scandal, involving large losses to customers. ... In the Whitney failure, members of the public generally were not involved because the firm was not doing any large public business. But that was only good fortune. It was even more of a fortunate accident that the recent Elfast insolvency did not involve the public. That was sheer good luck. . . . The time to build fire escapes is not while a fire is raging, but when the building is in good condition...