Word: cheap
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Arbitration is simple, cheap, private and voluntary. Because it is simple, people are suspicious of it. Because it is cheap ($5 for a $500 claim, $200 for a $99,000 claim), some lawyers think it robs them. Since it is private, wide publicity has not favored it. Because it is voluntary, it is hard to get started, but once agreed to, arbitration can be final: its decisions are legally enforceable in 13 States.* First modern arbitration law in the U. S. was passed by New York in 1920, although the methods date to Colonial times...
...until 1917 was Mr. Scattergood ready to scatter the good of cheap power. Then, starting with 5,000 customers, he launched a campaign to buy up the private companies, continually forcing the issue with direct competition. The Power Bureau would merely string a line down a street parallel to the private lines, offer lower rates, wait for the rush of customers. The private companies could not meet the price without lowering rates in the whole territory. In 1922, after furious litigation, Southern California Edison had to capitulate, selling out to the city...
...tiny yellow Aeronca, at $1,355 a Porterfield Zephyr. At $2,468 was the Rearwin Sportster, which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin...
South, West and East, the big divisions of U. S. railroading. He was therefore far and away the most logical man to go to Washington as A.A.R.'s president in 1934. It did not take him long to establish headquarters on 17th & H Streets. It is full of cheap, golden oak desks and big wall calendars and the unmistakable fumigant which characterizes railroad offices from the Bangor & Aroostook to the Alaska Railroad. President Pelley's own quarters are decorated with an illuminated testimonial from New Haven employes which he prizes highly. "You can always fool the guys above...
John the Baptist, f. b. When news of this talk reached Philadelphia, scandalized officials at two Bible schools announced they would "investigate." Rev. Dr. Elim A. E. Palmquist, executive director of the Philadelphia Federation of Churches, snorted: "Cheap publicity...