Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Accepted the retirement, as head of the Citizens Food Committee, of Soapman Charles Luckman, whose razzle-dazzle promotions had counted for little in actual food savings but whose noisy rousing of public interest had helped get promises from distillers, bakers, poultrymen and others to cut grain consumption by 100 million bushels...
This week, Arthur Vandenberg stepped down from his seat as the Senate's presiding officer to open floor debate on the bill. In a full-dress speech as the Republican Party's chief spokesman on foreign policy, he urged its swift passage out of a "self interest which knows ... we cannot indefinitely prosper in a broken world." Swift passage was almost certain. On this program, there was little disagreement...
Tools & Stooges. He had a cozy set-up for the cozy war he fought in Washington and at Dayton's Wright Field. Despite the warnings of superiors that he must have no interest in companies which might be doing business with the Army, Meyers got his fingers into a metal-tooling factory. It was the Aviation Electric Corp., a few miles from his office at Wright. It wasn't much- a 190-ft. by 140-ft. one-story building with no more than 30 machines, at its peak. Benny put about $54,000 in it. He needed...
...University's generous loan funds were set up out of genuine concern for the less prosperous undergraduate. In the majority of cases, loans with an interest rate of four and one-half percent or less are granted without collateral, and the University occasionally sanctions outright gifts of money to needy men. Nevertheless, the lending program remains anchored in the past and cannot successfully aid a student population three-quarters veteran. Lehman Hall insists on treating veteran loans in the same category as those to other students when the two cases are vastly different. It makes no provision for the fact...
Outlanders In. Formed by New York's Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., and Lazard Frères & Co. (Phelps Dodge's Louis Gates, and David Rockefeller, youngest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., came in later), American Anglo had an option to buy a one-third interest in any projects launched by able Bob Hersov. The Americans had put up $5,000,000, had agreed to ante up more as the need arose...