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...shrink or sink. Some time this year, a new, privately run U.S. Postal Service will raise second-class mailing rates by at least 50%, and probably by 100% over the next five years, to make second class pay its own way. Rates are based on weight; smaller magazines costless to mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Shrink | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...Smothers pointed out that: 1) there is no Wednesday-deadline provision in the contract; 2) the tape was submitted to the CBS Los Angeles office on Wednesday anyway; 3) the brothers had agreed to snip the offending sermonette. CBS's real motive, said Tom, was to find a costless way to cancel the $4.5 million Smothers contract at a date so late that the other networks could not fit them into next fall's schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censorship: Fickle Finger of CBS | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...feels sure that a microwave system using bare and costless ridges of land instead of expensive repeater stations could carry computer chatter all over the country. It would probably be too noisy to carry human conversation, but unlike their creators, computers are not bothered by noise on the phone line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Party-Line Computers | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

Last fall Navy Lieut. Commander John E. Draim of the Naval Missile Center at Point Mugu, Calif, wondered why the ocean, which the Navy naturally loves and appreciates, could not be used as a launching pad. A water pad would be costless, he figured, as well as self-cooling and self-healing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Project Hydra | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

With tickets now costless, home game attendance is expected to rise sharply during the next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bursar Cards Required For Football Admission | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

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