Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, not a scheme to spend money, but to save money. Explained the aide: "The whole point of the plan is enlightened self-interest. We don't want to go on forever handing out doles. The Marshall Plan gets them over the hump, but it will be the great, imponderable strength of our technical skills, combined with their manpower and resources that will help these countries...
...daily newspapers, which do a first-rate job of sports coverage, TIME is not immediately concerned with who won. Anyone who cares can find that out before the weekly issue of TIME reaches the newsstand. The editors of TIME believe that all of their news columns should be of interest to all readers, and Sport, therefore, has to give the news, satisfy the experts among TIME'S readers, and be clearly understandable to the uninitiated, as well. That is not an easy assignment, and Smith spends considerable time out of the office (e.g., the 1948 Olympic Games in London...
...older pilots is nothing to worry about, said McFarland, who is 47: "The extent of the decline in such functions as ability to learn, memory, reasoning and judgment is much less than generally believed." As long as the pilot had a good brain to start with, and his interest in his job continues, no "significant adverse trends in mental performance" should be expected up to 55 or 60. As a "morale builder" for older fliers, he suggested creating the job of "command pilot" on larger planes; command pilots would not have to meet active pilots' strict physical standards...
...York. It would pick up the tab for a three-day whirl of luncheons, receptions and banquets for 5,000 people. All over the U.S., G.M. dealers were also cutting capers; Omaha Chevrolet dealers sent a flagpole sitter aloft for nine days (at $100 a day) to whomp up interest in the unveiling of new models...
...years. A.T. & T.'s President Leroy A. Wilson seemed less shaken. Said he: "Western Electric has been a part of the Bell System for over 65 years ... I am sure that when all the facts are known, the existing arrangement will be found to be in the public interest...