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...Revised Standard Version was not considered a likely source of profit in 1936 when Nelson decided to help the National Council of Churches finance the revision in return for a ten-year exclusive license on its sale. Many churchmen and publishers thought the RSV could never make a dent in King James Version sales, but it now accounts for a fifth of the U.S. market. When scholars finally finished the RSV in 1952, Nelson spent $3,000,000 on preparation and plates, sank a phenomenal $500,000 in promotion the first year of publishing, followed by $400,000 the second...
...Barely a Dent. Newspaper unions say, with considerable justice, that the newspaper field is shrinking, and that labor costs are only one factor. But that factor is large. In the past five years, newspaper unions have staged 81 strikes, only 14 of them by the Guild...
...medicare, then blame the well-known coalition of Republicans and con servative Democrats in the House for kill ing it. He had good reason to believe that he could: the 64-36 Democratic majority in the Senate usually makes that body amenable. With that in mind, the Presi dent permitted his Senate leaders to attach a modified form of the King-Anderson medicare bill as an amendment to an unre lated welfare bill. This had the advantage of bypassing the Senate Finance Commit tee, headed by Medicare Foe Harry Byrd...
...immigrants rushed to get into Britain before July 1, when the new Commonwealth Immigrants Act comes into force. In the past, any citizen of the far-flung Commonwealth could exercise his right of free entry into Britain. As of July 1, he can enter only as a stu dent or visitor, or if he holds in advance a paper from Britain's Ministry of Labor confirming that a definite job awaits him. In the scramble to reach Britain, Indians in New Delhi paid bribes of $600 to get seats on planes; in Pakistan, the forging of hard...
...exceeded fifteen per cent of hers. (This helps explain why the unprincipled British will trade with Rel China; America can afford her high-minded refusal to do so.) Even if an expansion of exports were the only effect of the Bill, it probably wouldn't make much of a dent in America's economy, much less in the serious labor problem...