Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago the U.S. Congress volleyed and thundered for five months over EGA. Last week it barely managed a show of interest in ECA's $5½ billion bill for the next 15 months. Summoned to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Dean Acheson waited for ten minutes before Chairman Tom Connally showed up, then waited ten minutes more for enough other committeemen to make a quorum. Finally Connally snapped at an attendant: "Go out and see if you can find any more Senators wandering around, and bring them...
...Haagen-Smit did his laborious job for the Hawaiian pineapple growers, who believe that they can grow and market better pineapples if they know the chemical origin of the fruit's admired flavor. But Dr. Haagen-Smit's main interest is to find out what flavor really...
...Tallantire explored further, discovered among Alma's childish effects pictures copied from the school's blackboard. Said indignant Mrs. Tallantire: "[They] would label me as a dirty woman if they were found in my handbag." She compared notes with other mothers, heard that their daughters had lost interest in games and schoolwork, were talking "nothing ... but sex, sex, sex." Last week Mrs. Tallantire said she had 1,000 signatures on a petition protesting the sex talks...
...concession in Ibn Saud's half of the neutral zone, California's independent Oilman J. Paul Getty offered a reported $9,000,000 down, a minimum royalty of $1,000,000 a year, a royalty of 55? a barrel, and a 25% interest in the company. This was so much more than any other company offered that oilmen were aghast. Furthermore, the world oil supply was already so ample that U.S. imports from the Middle East and Venezuela are being cut back. Last week there were signs that gasoline prices might soon be coming down. In view...
...adults, his eyes brimming with tears. Next to Margaret O'Brien, he is undoubtedly the most disgusting child to appear on the screen. If Dean and Margaret ever get into the same picture, God help us--everyone. Richard Widmark plays the first mate competently, but without much interest. "Down to the Sea in Ships" is this week's best movie to avoid...