Word: interests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This surge of interest in the armed support of law and order calls for a combined budget of upwards of $1,250,000 a week-a bankroll that supports sleuths ranging from a corn-fed country operative named Hannibal Cobb, who appears in five-minute syndicated slices, to a brand-new sunburned entry, Hawaiian Eye, with a mixture of lets and lead, and a full hour on the screen. As the corpses pile up in the living room, citizens who know crime only from the tabloids follow the Eyes like men on the trail of their most desperate hope...
...about $700 a year. "This is really very little," he says. "In fact, it cost me nothing. I teach a course at U.C.L.A. one night a week, and my income from that is enough to cover the boy's education." Kao finds it strange that this should interest anyone. "Really, I do not understand why anyone should question why someone helps someone else. If you are capable, you help. That...
...owned this old-gold mine for years, is happy to discharge. Indeed, the oldsters have had a healthy effect on the paper itself. "They make you think twice before generalizing," said a Times staffer : "They really read the newspaper. They not only have the time, they have the informed interest. They're a challenge." Meeting that challenge has helped rank the St. Petersburg Times among the South's most solid newspapers...
...much of everything else that net feed production is up 5%. On corn alone, Benson faces having to buy up to $672 million worth of this year's corn, on top of an estimated $1.8 billion worth of previous years' corn.* Meanwhile, storage, transportation and interest on earlier corn surpluses are costing $1,000,000 a day, more than twice the cost of maintaining the U.S. courts and Congress. Total added outlay for this year's corn charged to the U.S. taxpayer this year: around $1 billion...
...railroad-busting Depression, earned money in 1958 from the coal regions of Virginia and West Virginia ($11.6 million for the Virginian; $43.5 million for the N. & W.), they duplicated one another to the point where the two lines were not, in ICC's words, "in the public interest." Merged, they will economize by consolidating managements and by using the Virginian's better tracks eastward over the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains. The Virginian's coal piers and marshaling yard adjacent to the Norfolk Navy Base will probably be put up for sale. Estimated saving from the elimination...