Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State officials blame the foul-up on their decision to use California's list of three-letter, three-digit combinations rather than prepare their own. The officials tried to eliminate prefixes that might be offensive to Iowans but overlooked GAY. Says Scott County Treasurer William Cusack: "Out in California I'm sure there is a waiting line for GAY plates. But not in Iowa." He is offering to exchange the GAY plates-1,000 were issued -on payment...
...Hill. Robinson brought with him Amexco President Roger Morley, who is also a McGraw-Hill director; Morley earlier had dropped some hints of Amexco's interest, but they were so subtle that McGraw may have failed to pick them up. The two American Express chiefs gave McGraw a letter proposing that Amexco buy all of McGraw-Hill's stock for $830 million in cash, or cash and Amexco stock if McGraw-Hill stockholders preferred, and run McGraw-Hill as a subsidiary without changing the management. Morley accompanied that with a letter resigning from the McGraw-Hill board...
Upset over a rash of muggings, rapes and robberies in their New Haven, Conn., neighborhood, ten residents wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper, demanding better police protection. "It is very important to all of us," they said, "that our families remain safe...
...typical enough urban complaint, but the return address was a surprise: 245 Whalley Avenue, the site of the county jail. Signed by the residents of Cell-block C, the letter was written by an inmate serving time on a drug conviction, who said his wife was afraid to visit him because of crime in the prison area. "If you are not safe entering and leaving a correctional center," lamented the cons, "where are you safe?" City officials agreed: they increased lighting in the area and beefed up police patrols...
...Cleveland banks are conservative banks. They are respected in the financial community and are highly profitable. But although they are sound investments, their actual value to the city is open to question. As one former Clevelander, now practicing law in Philadelphia, wrote in a letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer...