Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ardent and faithful admirer of your excellent magazine, I have naturally read with great interest your number of the 25th of April last...
Three world citizens were sitting in the sunny Café de Flore, the shrine of Left Bank Bohemia, feeling quite sorry for themselves. After the pleasant splash that First World Citizen Garry Davis had made last winter (TIME, Jan. 10), the world seemed to have lost interest in the movement that was designed to unite it in peace...
...just finished its compilation last week when Phillips Petroleum's President Kenneth S. Adams announced in Calgary that his company had bought an interest in 4,800,000 acres of oil rights in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In its northern venture, Phillips was following the trail of such giants as Standard Oil (N.J.) and the Texas Co. They and other U.S. firms were turning out 66% of all petroleum products made in Canada...
...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...
...Edward VIII. Then, suddenly his reign was over, and he went off to marry Wallis Warfield. "Are they going to cut off his head?" Margaret asked her big sister expectantly when she heard the news. When she finally understood that her own father was to be the monarch, her interest gave way to bored impatience. "Oh, bother," said Great Britain's princess, "and I've only just learned to spell York...