Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kathleen McGrath of Dublin who won £25,000 in the Baltic Sweep, Clerk Butler of the Amalgamated Motors Ltd., Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa who had a Calcutta Sweepstakes ticket but was reported to have lost it, Jimmy Gibbs, 7, who had a ticket on Favorite Cragadour, part interest in which his father sold for $60,000 before the race, Engineer Arthur Court of Indianapolis who invested one reluctant dollar in the English Derby charity Sweepstakes (Army and Navy Veterans, Quebec, Unit...
...children, Lawrence, Florence, Floracene, Juanita, Clyde. His other three children are already educated. Engineer Court will not, however, receive the entire value of his ticket. To the veteran's relief fund he must donate 47% (about $40,000). To Guy Moore, Indiana plumber who bought a fifth interest in the winning ticket, he must pay $10,000. The J. S. will also collect income tax. Engineer Court found time, last week, amid many financial arguments and arrangements to invest another dollar in another sweepstake, the Dominion Rifle...
England's august Manchester Guardian has flatly called this German work "the greatest of all war books.' It moves in space, not in time. The interest of the scene completely dwarfs the interest of the story...
Industrial doers have long pondered specific methods of making such dreams come true. Last week came rumors that the House of Morgan was planning a gigantic food manufacturer's consolidation. Nucleus of this merger was to be Fleischmann Co., of which the Morgan company purchased a large minority interest (400,000 to 500,000 shares) in 1926. Inspiration for working out the merger was provided by the unique Fleischmann daily delivery system. Constituents in the merged company were rumored as Postum, Gold Dust, Corn Products, Campbell Soup, Heinz, Royal Baking Powder, Procter & Gamble, and many another. The rumors...
...concession was reported as won after prolonged struggles with "British interests." Chief such British interest is the British Radio-Cable merger, which owns the Marconi radio system and the most extensive cable system in the world. But with some 1,000,000 out of 1,500,000 South American telephones in U. S. control, and with the newest Behn victory in Peru and Colombia, it would appear that South American communications travel on the Eagle's wings rather than with the Lion's roar...