Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest on its investment, sets aside nothing for depreciation or amortization. Operators of privately-owned utilities which must meet these costs argue that there can be no fair comparison between their service rates and those charged by plants publicly subsidized. Last week private operators shook their heads in wonder, worry and skepticism when the Tennessee Valley Authority, President Roosevelt's greatest experiment in public ownership and operation, moved to meet in advance and silence this line of argument by announcing that its charges for Muscle Shoals electricity would include all the regular items that any private power company...
...London. - ED. Dodges to Syndicate to Chrysler Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 4 under Business & Finance, you say, "James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler for $160,000,000." I think many of your readers will wonder that TIME should have forgotten that this spectacular purchase, which the same article refers to as the "biggest cash sale in Wall Street history" was made not by Chrysler but by Dillon, Read & Co., or by a syndicate which they headed, who then publicly marketed new Dodge Brothers securities which securities...
...Chicago argued that Psychological Corp. was helping business houses to exploit the public. Cried he: "It all seems to me to be in the service of the businessman. Nothing we do is in the service of the consumer or in larger terms of social implications. . . . I cannot help but wonder at times whether there is not a certain amount of hypocrisy involved...
LAMB IN HIS BOSOM-Caroline Miller- Harper ($2). Many a prize-winning author might be proud to have written such a quiet, unpretentious little masterpiece as Lamb in His Bosom. After reading it, many who also read the Harper Prize Novel (The Fault of Angels, TIME, Aug. 28) may wonder why Lamb in His Bosom did not get the prize, may recall rumors that at least one of the judges (Dorothy Canfield. Sinclair Lewis, Harry Hansen) voted in its favor. Authoress Miller may miss the prize-money but Lamb in His Bosom can get along without any such endorsement...
...hardly mentions in Alice B. Toklas. It is a strangely impersonal book. Her only reference to her interior life is the admission that when she was 17 ''the last few years had been lonesome ones and had been passed in an agony of adolescence." If curious readers wonder why she passes over these matters so lightly, they may answer themselves by reflecting that no doubt Gertrude Stein, like everybody else, has autobiographical passages which she does not choose...