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...charges, pier fees and rents. This covered its operating costs, and left $99,000,000 over for improvements, reserves and the reduction of its bonded debt, now $525,530,778. Its credit is such that one $18,757,000 bond, issue was sold at an interest rate of I.358%, lowest ever recorded for any municipal or state issue...
...Chinese Turkestan-always compounding generalizations to explain why human beings, provoked by weather and geography, behave as they do. He kept an eye open for such relevant material as the relation of rape to the seasons (highest in June); the proportion of non-fiction lent by U.S. public libraries (lowest in the South); the relation of climate to monotheism (it does best in deserts...
Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick is a farsighted-often a gloomily farsighted-man. Last month he set aside the Chicago Tribune Tower's lowest sub-basement as an atom-bomb shelter (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week he announced that he would stock the (future) dugout with a little (future) mild refreshment. He assured the 3,000 Tower employees that the refuge would be "equipped [for us] to live there 24 hours. . . ." Among its provisions: "an adequate supply of canned pineapple . . . the best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...Portillo Hotel in Chile with our famous Sun Valley [TIME, Sept. 15]. You say the cost per person at Portillo Hotel is $9 a day with meals, while Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 per day without meals, with an inference that this cost is the lowest rate. This is definitely not correct. The lowest rates at Sun Valley Lodge last winter for single occupancy in bachelors' quarters were $6.50 a day without bath. . . . The rates at the Portillo Hotel range upward from $9 a day for each occupant of a room which must be shared with...
...Breaking windows and starting brawls for the fun of it was standard fun for young men of good family. Up to the first years of the 19th Century, wrote Burke, "the Prince [later George IV] was an example of the men of his time; gamesters, drunkards, haunters of the lowest dens, careering about the streets at midnight . . . and having with it all a number of accomplishments, informed minds, sound scholarship, and taste in literature...