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...horde of mechanics charged into New York's 520 subway and elevated stations, changed the coin slots of 3,390 turnstiles and simultaneously ended an era. After 44 years of riding the subways for a nickel, New Yorkers started paying a dime...
...uphill battle to encourage housing construction. The new trend: great groups of apartment houses like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town. After backing and filling for months, he screwed up his courage to raise subway fares from a nickel to a dime...
...machine, plus a "favorscope" which tells the best time for starting treatment; for $3.50 a year they could get up-to-date guidance from Ghadiali; for another $10, they could get new panes if the old ones broke (they could have bought them much cheaper at a five-&-dime store...
...editorial cost of TIME today (not counting paper, printing, distribution, etc.) is $1.48 a word. In 1923 many newspapers had an average editorial cost of a cent a word; their average is still well under a dime. TIME'S $1.48 is spent (sometimes in vain) in looking for significant facts that make the story "come alive"; in checking up on other news media, and on itself; in finding the event's right place in the procession of events...
Other campaigns and services there have certainly been, but not many more in the past 15 years that will measure up to these standards of performance. What we have seen published, day after day, is a digest of news pretty well restricted to the College Yard and its myriad dime-sized activity groups. Generally the stories are accurate enough, well-enough written, and painstakingly made up in typographical balance. Perhaps this is a sufficient miracle in itself, and we should be grateful for it. Yet one cannot help remarking the curious limbos of the CRIMSON'S world...