Word: charterers
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Packer's idea has been copied in 18 other cities as diverse as Cleveland, Memphis, Louisville, Indianapolis, Akron, New York and Orlando, Fla., though not yet in Dallas. Last month it was taken to Phoenix by a newly arrived charter member of the Detroit club. Just eight days after 100 citizens started the Phoenix Hundred Club, it handed its first $1,000 check to Mrs. Herman Nofs, widow of a 71-year-old deputy marshal who was murdered by his own gun in a scuffle with teen-age burglars in nearby Youngstown, Ariz. Deputy Nofs's death stirred...
...issue was Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, which provides that members failing to pay their dues lose their vote in the General Assembly. The U.S. had argued that special assessments to pay for U.N. peace-keeping forces in the Middle East's Gaza Strip and the Congo were regular dues. Not so, said Russia and twelve other members, including France, South Africa and Belgium. Adamant, the U.S. let it be known as last year's General Assembly got under way that she would challenge Russia's right to vote. Result: to stave off a showdown...
...further improve its financial performance, U.S. Steel−which has operated under a New Jersey charter ever since it was put together by old J. P. Morgan−will merge with a subsidiary and incorporate in Delaware, whose corporate laws and taxes are among the most lenient in the U.S. The company will also increase the par, or nominal value, of its common stock from its current mathematically unwieldy $16⅔ to a more tidy $30 per share, largely to facilitate bookkeeping...
Flying Blind. Thus blinded before it ever left the ground, Flight 901A, piloted by Captain Henry Norris, 45, flew from Oakland to Salinas, where it picked up a party of 18 charter passengers for a one-day trip to the Tahoe casinos. The plane next landed at San Jose, taking aboard 63 more, filling it to its passenger capacity. At the San Jose stopover, Captain Norris received a weather report from the Tahoe Valley Airport. According to the CAB, Paradise's Tahoe station manager, presumably unwilling to turn away a lucrative flight, had changed an official weather report, causing...
Died. Ted Snyder, 84, Tin Pan Alleyman, sometime collaborator with Irving Berlin, and composer of Who's Sorry Now? and Sheik of Araby (which he wrote for Rudolph Valentino); charter member with Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa in 1914, of ASCAP; of heart disease; in Encino, Calif...