Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill last week President Eisenhower sent what may be 1958's most important-and most fiercely contested-Administration proposal. Due to expire on June 30 is the reciprocal trade act (real name: Trade Agreements Act), the charter under which the executive branch occasionally makes moderate cuts in U.S. tariffs if other countries make cuts in their tariffs on U.S. imports. The President asked Congress to: 1) extend the act for "a minimum" of five years instead of the usual three, 2) grant him the authority to cut tariffs as much as 10% a year-but not more than...
Flying missionaries is only one of the chores of the twelve U.S. pilots and six U.S. mechanics who operate the institute's airline. Between missionary jobs, the line operates for a profit. It takes oilmen into the interior on charter, serves as a jungle feeder line for the Peruvian army's air transport. Rates are moderate, but in a year the S.I.L. can gross some $35,000 from charters. It needs the money, for this airline consists mostly of planes it did not pay for, and of pilots it does...
...McCone, California industrialist (shipbuilding) and onetime (1950-51) Under Secretary for Air. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's plan is that ARPA will take charge of such new weapons systems as anti-missile missiles and, possibly, satellites themselves before they become factors in interservice rivalry. With such a charter, the ARPA boss could easily evolve into a weapons czar without any fanfare...
...most curious paradox about the annual scramble to get into college is that, far from fearing they will end up with too many freshmen, many admissions officers worry about getting too few. In the College Board Review, Headmaster John Gummere of Philadelphia's William Penn Charter School describes the headaches that result from students' applying for and being accepted by as many as 20 colleges before deciding...
Parameter. In Santa Rosa, Calif., City Manager Sam B. Hood relaxed a city charter provision forbidding city employees to give Christmas presents to their superiors, instructed department heads that they could accept a gift "if you can eat it, drink it or smoke...