Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing to do with the way he had been treated at Oxford. "The anti-Americanism of Oxford is complex and subtle, [but] the sting [has been] taken out of it by the fact that it is fashionable to have an American friend. Perhaps it is for the same reason that the courts used to find the muscular slow-witted barbarian from Asia a curiosity and a comfort to have about. The role is somewhat uncertain, but it is interesting...
...reason for his success is the quality of his recording artists. To play The Wonderful Violin he got the NBC Symphony Orchestra's Concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff. Another reason: the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony and the Dallas Symphony, among others, have found Y.P.R.-commissioned scores (e.g., Alex North's The Waltzing Elephant, Walter Hendl's Little Brass Band, Douglas Moore's The Emperor's New Clothes) good enough for their concert programs...
...years, the book review section of the Sunday New York Times (circ. 1,161,174) has had four editors. For one reason or another, all eventually parted company with exacting, hard-riding Lester Markel, longtime (26 years) Sunday editor of the Times (TIME, March 8, 1948). Since August, able Editor Markel has been his own book editor, while he hunted for a man who could fill...
Leading the market were the television shares, notably Admiral Corp., which declared a 100% stock dividend. For those who still swore by the Dow theory, regardless of its confusing "signals," there was also reason to cheer. The railroad average, lagging behind the industrial, now broke through last March's "resistance" point. To some Dow theorists, that was a sign that a bull market was in the making...
...Board came more bullish news in a survey of consumer buying. Despite the recession in the first half of the year, FRB found that few consumers had curtailed buying plans. FRB also noted that consumers were, by & large, counting on a continued high level of income-and with good reason. Personal income for the first eight months of the year, the Department of Commerce reported last week, was at a record rate of $212.6 billion, some $3.2 billion more than in the same period last year...