Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the bonds are sold, it is likely that Cherokee Mills will buy the biggest portion. The rent the company will pay for the plant will be just enough to cover maintenance, bond interest and amortization. Thus, most of the rent the company pays Sevierville will go back to Cherokee as interest and amortization on its bonds. In effect, the company, which employs 700, will get a modern, tax-free plant, instead of an older building on which it paid taxes in Knoxville. While Knoxville was angry about the deal, Sevierville was jubilant, figured it meant hundreds of new jobs...
Authorities agree that there are certain programs of formal preparation which the aspiring banking tycoon should follow, whether his bank he located on Wall Street or on Main Street. A large portion of the potential banker's college program should be devoted to the liberal arts. Whereas some concentration in economics is advisable, most banks claim that the principles of banking and business are best learned by practical experience. Although these banks give a very slight preference to Economics concentrators or to men with a Master of Business Administration degree, all accepted applicants, whether experienced or tyro, undergo bank training...
...have gotten the impression that the cause of most unhappiness is a low sexual charge and that to become sexually active and skillful is a sure cure for al most anything. It is not going too far to say that a large portion of the U.S. population regards sex. today with the same simple faith that their great-grandparents reserved for snake...
...Rockefeller Foundation decided to take some of the teeth out of this old composers' maxim, and began by bestowing a $400,000 grant on the Louisville Orchestra to enlarge that orchestra's program for commissioning and performing new works. One afternoon last week, while a goodly portion of the upper-middlebrow musical world waited for news of the proceedings, Louisville launched the new series...
...page edition "for the record" for every one of the days missed during the strike, along with four news sections (152 pages) crammed with Christmas ads. The tabloid News printed 532 pages for its six different editions for the New York and New Jersey areas, with a double portion of comics, and 23,000 lines more advertising than the same edition last year. All five Sunday papers were so heavy and hard to handle that hundreds of extra trucks and mailers were put on to deliver them, and some newsdealers, almost buried under the avalanche of paper, delivered copies...