Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here on Bear Creek Valley Ranch read with deep interest your piece on Bob Kleberg and the great King Ranch [TIME...
...whole city took a critical, personal interest in the massive task of digging which began the next day. Luckily the snow had fallen just before the weekend. But there were 99,000,000 tons of snow to be removed, 10,000 automobiles to be exhumed, and a task force of 20,000 municipal employees marshaled for the job. Estimated expense to the city for snow removal...
...world would depend on two things. One was the purely selfish consideration set forth last spring by Dean Acheson, then Under Secretary of State. "Measures of relief and reconstruction have been only in part suggested by humanitarianism . . . [it] is chiefly a matter of self-interest." The other consideration: humanitarianism...
...show originated with Radio Producer Louis G. Cowan, who got to thinking how important U.S. farm folk are in a hungry world. It occurred to him that radio had no adequate showcase for-or interest in-rural America; even Hooperatings are taken only in the larger cities.So he asked John Lewellen, the Quiz Kids' program director, to work up a proper show. Lewellen, who was raised on a farm near Gaston, Ind., sent his parents out over the R.F.D.s of rural America to drum up interest and recruit performers...
...letting U.S. bond prices drop, Federal Reserve raised the yield on them slightly. Since Government bonds are the biggest factor in setting interest rates on all forms of business loans, Federal Reserve's action will tend to force up all interest rates. This was a gesture to those who have complained that its failure to use all its powers to curb credit is letting the boom get out of hand. Credit would not be tightened much by the move, but it was a starter...