Word: parents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Madeira began teaching English and history in a Washington, D.C. private school. After ten years of it, she was earning $950 a year. Borrowing $6,000, she started her school in 1906 in a rented building in downtown Washington. One month before the term began, a parent telegraphed to ask if there were any openings. Replied Miss Madeira: "All of them...
Apparently undisturbed at losing $1,700,000 on TV last year, NBC expects to lose $5,000,000 more before it turns a profit-about five years from now. NBC's parent company, RCA, squatting triumphantly atop the field, has made as many television sets as the other 46 manufacturers combined...
...much funny business does go on? Often, the jockey and the horse he is to ride have never met before. The trainer, who has a disillusioned parent's knowledge of the horse's habits and possibilities, gives the jockey a quick fillin, and tells him how to ride the race. Once on the track, the jockey has, like the soldier, the privilege of disregarding instructions and taking...
...became president of a combine of ten companies headed by Continental Distilling Corp. In 1939 he moved up into his present job in Publicker, Continental's parent, became an officer of several subsidiaries. Named with Marks was Nelson Littell, 51, Manhattan patent lawyer, and secretary-treasurer of American Hyalsol...
White's main contribution to College politics, however, is as president of HYD. This organization, whose parent national body was founded at the same convention which disbanded the young Communist League, is, by White's definition, "The only true Liberal force at Harvard." Its principles are labor, minority, and civil rights support, support of youth and student needs (guarding of academic freedom and fighting against discrimination), support of Big Three unity and the end of imperialistic U. S. foreign policy, and, most important, support of Wallace and foundation of a permanent third party in this country...