Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dual stock control, and within a year, no dual management of the new companies. In the reorganization, no stockholder will receive shares of both companies, but investors will be able to buy a limited interest in both in the open market...
...Paramount's television interests will be split up. The Chicago station (WBKB) will go to the theater company. The movie company will get the Los Angeles station (KTLA), and the controlling interest in Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. With Paramount and RKO (TIME, Nov. 8) out of the fight, the Justice Department hoped that the rest of the "Big Five" (Loew's, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox) would also come to terms...
Hard times are an old story to the Gardens. The first World War took experienced help away and cut public support; deterioration reached such a point that the curator resigned in despair. Only revived interest and generous benefactors saved them--the thirties found the Gardens beautiful once more, and the visitors still came...
Gradually, however, the Botany Department began to replace the Gardens with modern equipment; new greenhouses now hold rare live plants. War brought another shortage of expert help, and money ran low as interest lagged. The Gardens had outlived their usefulness...
McMurtrie said that a "whirlwind survey ... would leave us open to foolish and dangerous error," and insisted that advocacy of such an investigation would imply inefficiency or lack of interest in students on the part of the Administration...