Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...export of arms to secure huge profits to the kings of the munitions industry"; Britain and France, for "keeping half the world in the chains of colonial slavery"; the Italian bourgeois, which "waits only for a convenient moment to throw himself on the oppressed and have his share of the spoils"; the international bankers, who "will preserve the worst reactionary regimes in Europe...
...Committee's recommendations will undoubtedly favor such policies as those outlined two week, ago to the stockholders of the $3,000,000,000 Electric Bond and Share system by its chairman, C. E. Groesbeck, who in the last two years alone has hooked his system up to Government generators at twelve points, coordinating public generators with private transmission facilities. This would permit operating companies to go on financing new equipment by selling bonds, preferred stock...
...operating company construction (forced by threatening power shortages)-without any holding company shakeup-may reach somewhere close to $600,000,000 (against perhaps $500,000,000 this year), but is not likely to go higher. Some plans already outlined: > Companies in the Electric Bond and Share system have budgeted $80,000,000 of new construction for 1940 ($66,000,000 authorized this year). > Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern system (which two weeks ago sold more property to TVA-at a loss of about one-third on book value) is spending an extra $22,000,000 over & above its normal...
...announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn Douglas) smart bachelor apartment, Ninotchka shocks his staid old butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared equally. As the butler indignantly refuses to share his lifetime savings with his bankrupt employer, she says: "Run along to bed, little father." When the Count makes love to her while a traffic cop is tooting his whistle, grimly scientific Ninotchka asks: "What is the interval between his whistles?" Her disintegration...
Coach Dick Harlow was lavish in his praise of the improvement the Harvard squad had made. The Sophomores, of course, came in for a lion's share of the plandits, but it was Senior Tom Healey who was the apple of Dick's eye. Of Worcester Tom, he said, "the best game of tackle any Harvard boy has ever played...