Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial anatomy of the U.S.'s No. 1 newspaper and its countingroom history for the past five years. Most startling news revealed by the report: from 1953 to 1957, fully 53% of the robust Times's profits came not from publishing but from papermaking-a 42% interest bought in 1926 in the Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co. Ltd. in Toronto, Ont., which supplies two-thirds of the company's high-quality newsprint. With such a solid profit foundation, the Times had seven-figure nets in all five years, but its publishing profits in 1953 and 1954, confirming...
...Trib's pressagent, Tex McCrary of TV-radio fame, admitted that at its present rate the Trib stood to lose $1,000,000 in the fiscal year ending in July 1959, conceded that Jock Whitney, his wartime friend and peacetime neighbor (Manhasset, L.I.), was considering taking over controlling interest in the Trib as a price for his help...
...needed to pay off debts and put the Trib on a sound operating basis. McCrary is certain Whitney will buy in ("Jock's a stayer"). But Reid shrugged off questions with "You'll have to ask Mr. Whitney." and in London, Whitney would say only: "My interest in the Herald Tribune is continuing. Further talks are going...
...Russia's big lures is its interest rates and repayment terms. U.S. loan interest is high, usually 4%-4½%, compared to 2% on Russia's $100 million loan to Afghanistan, repayable over 30 years. But perhaps the chief appeal of the Soviet program is that Russia, a nation that still needs many raw materials and foodstuffs, can accept commodities in trade that Western countries already have in abundance. The U.S. is actually a competitor of underdeveloped nations in selling such surplus items as rice and cotton, buys many other commodities only when they are scarce...
Seniors would cheer alumni; alumni would raise a whoop for undergraduates. Round the track the graduates would march. In 1821 the Class of '18 disguised themselves as bottles of "home brew," in memorium, so to speak. The focus of interest had shifted slightly by 1937, and some alumni, dressed in Bavarian costumes, paraded with posters announcing they had "A Code in our Heads," or simply stating that the "Blue Eagle is a Yale Bird...