Word: interested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Searching for a human interest story, sentimental correspondents hurried to another part of the jail to interview executioner de Pineda, the condemned Rabano's onetime friend. They found him in his cell, nervously munching bread and onions...
...much juggling, Mr. Loree makes money for his D. & H.-the most notable instance being last year when, frustrated in his Mississippi-to-Atlantic "fifth trunk system," he suddenly and to the vexation of the New York Central, B. & 0. and Van Sweringen group sold the D. & H. interest in the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash to the Pennsylvania at a profit of some...
Unchanged has been this ordered routine for 15,000,000 years, unless the Smithsonian Institute is deceived about the age of the shells in its cases. But not until the year 100 B. C. did the world take an active interest in the sex life of the oyster. The first to make a study of oyster love was one Sergius Grata, who founded an oyster farm on Italy's Lake Lucrine. The last was omnivorous General Foods Corp. which last week announced the formation of a new subsidiary. Bluepoints Co. Inc., to take over the assets of the North...
...this obscurity Banker Rand quickly divested himself. That year he became assistant secretary of The Marine Trust Co., the next year vice president. In 1921, anxious to show he could do something for himself besides running his father's bank, Mr. Rand with some young friends acquired an interest in the Buffalo Trust Co. He was made president, soon opened many branch offices, piled up resources at a terrific clip. In 1926 the Buffalo Trust and the Marine Trust merged-and Banker Rand was elected president of all that...
...other newspapers had excited great outcry because I. P. Co.'s owner is International Paper & Power Co. and because power companies' press activities have lately been viewed with wide alarm (TIME, April 22 et seq.), authorized the sale of I. P. Co.'s 50% stock interest in Boston Publishing Co.-a development long rumored (TIME, June...