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...this bang-up job, United increased flying time per airplane, speeded up all turnarounds, reshuffled schedules, converted a dozen-odd twelve-passenger sleepers into regular 21-passenger transports. In the past six months the company's over-all "load factor" (i.e., percentage of carrying capacity used on all flights) has jumped about 20 points to a record 85%. On the important San Francisco-Portland run it is averaging an unprecedented...
Among the dozen-odd other Episcopal diocesans already over 72 are: New York's William Thomas Manning, 74; Pennsylvania's Francis Marion Taitt, 79; Washington's James Edward Freeman, 74; Pittsburgh's Alexander Mann, 80; Maryland's Edward Trail Helfenstein...
...tons. But the beet growers, chief of whom is one of the Mountain States' best connected businessmen, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Mormon Church, are better politicians than economists. Via Senator Reed Smoot they were Washington insiders in the '20s, and via their dozen-odd Senators (most of whom double in silver) they are Washington insiders still. Their achievements: an increased tariff and a domestic quota system...
Washington proudly calls its nine-year-old orchestra the National Symphony Orchestra, proudly considers it one of the dozen-odd major symphonies...
...maybe Mickey was honestly trying to provide some barn-door proof of the far-and-wide presence of Communism, so that the common man could see and beware accordingly. It is well known around Kerry Corner that the guiding drive in his life--next to his pride in his dozen-odd strapping children and in his prosperous trucking business--is a very real and sincere, if slightly confused, hatred of Communism. The resolution is certainly couched in no niggardly terms, and Mickey very probably meant it when he said, "WHEREAS: Communism is the world's greatest curse today; and WHEREAS...