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...flat 25 dollars given without consideration of past salary or length of employment. Money to pay the benefits would be drawn from the trust fund until it was dray, then obtained by general taxation. But 25 dollars is a ridiculously small amount--hardly enough for subsistence; more important, the blanket extension covering all the aged, destroys one of Social Security's basic principles: you don't get something for nothing, and the more you produce, the more you will receive when you retire...
...Bubble Blanket. Tiny plastic bubbles that cut evaporation 85% to 90% when floated on crude oil in tanks were put on the market by Bakelite Co. Estimated savings if used by the entire oil industry: $60 million a year...
...conduct, but recent abuses and want of good sense and taste have shown the need for uniform authorized rules by Congress as a whole. Senate and House investigations presumably point toward some specific legislation, but with at leas three committee chairmen aiming at, and producing little but headlines, blanket restrictions are overdue...
...recital. One reason went back to prewar Germany: in 1935, as a 19-year-old music student in Berlin's Hochschule fur Musik, she became a leader in the Nazi Studentenbund. Thereafter her career blossomed; throughout the war she was a favorite of German audiences. Eventually, after the blanket denazifications of 1946, she returned to the musical stage in Vienna...
...second failure of the Senate bill is that it gives the committee, not the law enforcing agencies, the final decision on who will receive immunity. With this blanket protection, a man granted immunity could throw any confession from tax evasion to murder into his testimony and free himself from prosecution by so doing. In the late nineteenth century, under the first compulsory testimony act, such "immunity baths" were common and often saved witnesses from charges being prepared by government attorneys. The Attorney General, who handles these cases, then, is a far better judge of immunity grants than the committee...