Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Gardens have had trouble several times in their history, a combination of low funds, lack of interest, and need for building space finally closed them this year. When the Botany Department's report to the Corporation failed to include any provision for the new degenerated properly, that august body voted to transfer the land's endowment to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. With the city of Cambridge pressing for more housing, the Corporation made plans for the project on which work began last month...
...pleasure to report that last night's concert by the Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra was a great improvement in every way over their effort last spring. The program was more coherent, each member played with interest and serious attention, and, most important, the group became a cohesive unit, devoted to getting music across...
...there is a theoretical way of "seeing around the earth" and guiding a missile that may explain the continued official interest in artificial satellites (TIME, Jan. 10). Granted the development of nuclear-powered rocket motors, it would not be impossible to establish such a satellite revolving round the earth like a tame moon. If its orbit were several thousand miles high, it could watch a good part of the earth (see diagram...
Foreign Investment. Two oil companies made the first big postwar investments of U.S. private capital in Italy. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.)* became a partner in Italy's rig ANIC (Azienda Nazalonale Idrogena-zione Combustibili), by putting up $6,000,000. It will get a 50% interest in a new company which will modernize and operate two ANIC refineries, with a combined daily capacity of 16,000 barrels, at Leghorn and Bari. Caltex Oil Products Ho., joint subsidiary of the Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California, bought an interest in Italy's Petrolea S.A., subsidiary of FIAT...
...Chicago office of Sears, Roebuck & Co., an employee gives workers the latest market price of the company's stock three times a day. Employees follow the ups & downs of the stock as eagerly as they follow prizefights or baseball games. There is a good reason for their interest: Sears workers own the biggest block of Sears stock...