Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardened us to a degree where we have practically abandoned all be lief in the goodness of a people and the pureness of intention of a government. We have got into the bad habit of looking behind those so-called good and spontaneous actions, often to find there self-interest...
Last week, still simmering about the whole thing, Te Whiu's descendants petitioned New Zealand's Government for the return of 1,500 acres and payment of ?150,000-or ?1,000 reward money at compound interest for 76 years...
...young scientist's elderly boss understandably feels that so exceptional a girl should, at all costs, be segregated and studied in the interest of science. The young man himself is torn between science and sex. When he finally kisses the girl, he apparently satisfies the urge that has kept her alive, and she promptly dies...
Clothes for Jane. Mister Bart joined the Mirror shortly after the late Lord Northcliffe founded it in 1903; Northcliffe turned the paper over to his brother, the late Lord Rothermere, who moved out in 1931. Who now owns a controlling interest in the Mirror is Fleet Street's biggest mystery. But the board of directors and thousands of stockholders are quite satisfied to let Bartholomew, chairman of the Mirror and Pictorial, run both papers as long as they make fat profits (net for their last fiscal years: ?535,111). Now 64, he has run the Mirror since 1931, built...
Stock Tunes. The New York Stock Exchange, "in the interest of encouraging sound investment and responsible ownership of securities," will sponsor its first radio program, a weekly 55 minutes of "good" musical recordings (on Manhattan's highbrow WQXR), beginning the end of this month. Quipped one bearish New Yorker: "The theme song should be 'Where Has My Little Dog Gone...