Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content. It clamored to the Interstate Commerce Commission that high railroad freight rates put it at a disadvantage in competing with the ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston. Last week, over railroad protests, the I. C. C. recognized Albany as an Atlantic port, ordered the roads to allow Albany the lower rates to the western trunk lines applicable to seaborne goods landed at other eastern ports. In handling European shipping into the Midwest, Albany's new rate status puts her on a par with Philadelphia, behind Baltimore, ahead of New York. Another gain from last week...
...maze is for him to resign, handing over the sceptre to a regent in trust for the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of York and heir apparent. This dignified gesture would hurt the crown much less than the current hush-hush hocus pocus, and would allow all parties to breathe easier...
...should think the Australian Government would be ashamed of itself to permit these animals to die out and to allow their only benefactor, Mr. Burnet, virtually to starve due to his lone uphill fight to save them. Can't California do what Australia is apparently unwilling to do? Hasn't California many eucalyptus trees originally brought from Australia, and among the California eucalypti can't some of the twelve varieties the Koala feeds upon be found? California is a greathearted, energetic State. Will Californians interest themselves in the Koala...
...their law offices, doctors in their consulting rooms, priests in their confessionals, they need not disclose in courts of law. Newshawks try to preserve a similar code, and sometimes go to jail for doing so, for only in four States-Maryland, New Jersey, Alabama, California-does the law specifically allow newshawks the right of concealing their news sources. Three weeks ago when Arkansas voters went to the polls they were asked to vote on a proposal to revise the State's criminal code to give newshawks immunity. The count was slow coming in for the public was not greatly...
...another symptom of the breakdown of our economic system--the laissez-faire of the good Dr. Smith cannot function if the markets allow themselves to be unprotestingly victimized by shoddy goods. All good Republicans should unite in rising...