Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anderson, mother of two children, has long had a passionate, if amateur, interest in world affairs. Five years ago, in an effort to do her bit in molding the world, she got into Democratic politics in Minnesota. She worked diplomatically and well, became a national committeewoman, helped to swing the state to the Democrats...
...service. It has become Canada's biggest employer (some 111,000). In recent years, C.N.R. has earned money on its operations, but, except for the war years, has seldom shown a net profit. Last year's earnings ($26.5 million) were not enough to meet even half the interest payments on C.N.R.'s longstanding debt-a whopping $1.3 billion...
Added Justice DiGiovanna: "Public interest in a free and democratic society does not warrant or encourage the suppression of any book at the whim of any unduly sensitive person or group of persons, merely because a character described in such book as belonging to a particular race or religion is portrayed in a derogatory or offensive manner...
...race is being sponsored by the Union Boat Club, under the direction a Quinby Taylor, a Boston attorney. It is the club's sim to start up a topflight Union crew, and Taylor hopes that today's race may stir up interest in such a crew. The club would like to enter the American Honley races with a boat good enough it place--manned by newly-graduated MIT and Harvard oarsmen...
Never lifting his eyes from his report, Mr. Ford asked the assemblage to turn to page five for what he confidently referred to as "some interesting facts." These included a Net Rental Income of $10,511.79, Internal Interest Charges to Merchandising Departments of $17,561,00, and something called a Demolition Expense, $37,765.95. It all added up to the fact that the Coop lost over $25,000 last year, which seemed to disturb neither Mr. Ford nor the 30 participating members...