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There are millions??of reasons to think Congress won't do much about global warming, all stockpiled in the lobbying budgets of the U.S.'s mightiest interest groups--automakers and other manufacturers, environmentalists, labor unions, farmers, oil companies, coal companies, utilities, the military, antitaxers and so on. A Washington axiom holds that it's always easier to do nothing than to do something. By that standard, tackling climate change, which would affect every industry and every private life, looks almost impossible...
...year ago last week many people were puzzling their heads over the just-then-published will of the late Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey. What on earth had inspired him, a man with no inkling or appreciation of art, to bequeath all but a trifle of his 40 millions??? to the Metropolitan Museum...
From Valdosta, Ga., came a general statement that the plans for a college in memory of Woodrow Wilson are "gathering momentum." (Valdostians have already subscribed $500,000 toward a fund of five millions???TIME...
...Filene's arithmetic was based on psychology. He looked out upon the masses of his fellow-countrymen and saw literally millions???"seven out of every ten"?panting for the salt air of the ocean, thirsting for the seasoned flavor of Europe. These millions cannot afford the $500 tickets of the S. S. Paris, Olympic or Aquitania. Second class is expensive; and they refuse to go third class, to label their baggage with an inferior tag, to promenade in the huddled after-decks...
Frank A. Munsey, great newspaper consolidator, must be disgusted. During the past year, he spent several millions???just how many millions is not known?in buying up evening newspapers in Manhattan. He bought the Globe and the Mail and consolidated them respectively with his Sun and his Telegram. Where there had been seven generally circulating evening newspapers in Manhattan he reduced them to five?at his own expense. He did it in the interest of what he believed was sound business. He probably believes that even five are too many for one city. Now the announcement is made that within...
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