Word: share
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where the Riviera is loud and brash, its less renowned rival Biarritz is reserved and circumspect. Drowsing in the winter sun, discreet Biarritz has its full share of ménages à trois, lurid and perverted personalities, titled lovers and mistresses of high & low degree. But scandal, however it flourishes behind the hedges that screen the big villas, is never to be flaunted in the swank drinking places. Thus it has been ever since the days of Britain's Edward VII, who set the tone for Biarritz and usually remembered to draw the blinds...
...desperation, Frankie fastens on her brother and his fiancee, feels that they can share their love with her and take her along on their honeymoon. Foiled, she runs away for a night-a night of melodrama when Berenice's foster brother is fleeing from a mob and little John Henry is stricken with meningitis. At the end, the boy and the brother are dead, and Berenice is genuinely bereft. But Frankie, having turned the corner into adolescence, is wonderfully and callously lighthearted...
...Negro Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students received the largest share of the proceeds, $1,914.28. Phillips Brooks House, the Salzburg Seminar, the World Student Service Fund, and the American Cancer Society each received over...
...Government to fix the size of the farmer's income right down to the dollar, the powerful American Farm Bureau Federation revolted. It denounced the plan as a "nationalization of agriculture and the distribution system," plumped for a plan that would let the market price have a bigger share in regulating production...
...greater efficiency seemed to be grounds for prosecution. In trying to break up the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. into seven separate grocery chains, the U.S. complained that A. & P. failed to mark up prices the normal amount. There was no question of monopoly, for A. & P.'s share of total business had shrunk from 11.6% in 1933 to 6.4% in 1949. In the same manner, Antitrust went after Wilmington's Du Pont empire, called it "the largest single concentration of industrial power in the U.S." But did this mean that it was thus, automatically, too big? Should...