Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fingerprints in the dust of time, on the contrary, testified to more than sporadic interest in the covers of "The Class Struggle in France," a two-volume work that found the intersection of supply and demand curves at 50 cents...
...pressing question of what MRA will mean given real momentum. The idealistic drive of this movement finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents so much as in the social elements to which the appeal goes forth. "The Good Road" plays before "invitation" audiences of people with either means or influence. Furthermore, the public figures who lend it the strength of their names include, in addition to chairman Admiral...
...born-too-late liberals that can defeat the best intended and most soundly are the diverse elements that can defeat the best intended and most soundly constructed program. It is up to the Commission to enlist the aid of educators and institutions, business, press, and radio, and all interested citizens in convincing these voices of the past that a challenge exists above and beyond the level of private interest that must...
This same interest in breeding got Kleberg interested in horse racing. He thought more thoroughbred blood would improve his ranch horses. He came back from the race tracks at Louisville and Saratoga with two carloads of thoroughbreds, and put them to "improving the breed." His horses turned out to have bigger chests and heavier forelegs than Kentucky breeders liked. They also ran faster than Kentuckians liked. The King Ranch's Assault won the triple crown-the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont...
...Tighten up on inflationary bank credit by dropping the Administration's cheap money policy and letting interest rates rise...