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Other unionized carriers are looking at still other ways to reduce labor costs. Trans World Corp. last week was considering spinning off its money-losing TWA subsidiary so that the airline could face its problems alone. Western is offering one-fourth of the company's stock to employees in return for wage concessions...
...Read is intended for a textbook and ought to be in use. It wd. debunk 80% of the idiocy in teaching literature in high-schools and colleges and 81 and one-fourth percent of literary journalists. Literary teaching and criticism ought to get the best stuff to the reader with the least interposition of secondhand yawp...
...dismal answer came all too quickly. By 1933 the U.S. economy had spiraled down to a point so close to complete collapse that even those old enough to remember find it difficult to believe. One-fourth of the working force was unemployed, banks closed down, hungry men hunted for scraps of food in trash heaps. The Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt marked a turning point perhaps most important for its assertion that economic recovery and revival could be achieved only with a substantial assist from the Government. While the Depression continued, it was softened by the New Deal...
...initial flourish last year generated nearly three candidates for every seat and brought half the campus to the polls. But attendance slipped as the year progressed, and frequent replacement elections proved necessary as members resigned. Now, barely 130 candidates want to serve on the 87-seat council. And about one-fourth of those running are incumbents, which further suggests that the numbers interested in the council's business are a slim percentage of the campus...
...Architects (A.I.A.), HABS has produced drawings, photos and descriptions of more than 16,000 important structures for its archives in the Library of Congress. They form an irreplaceable historical record of American architecture, ranging from Indian pueblos and pioneer structures to palatial mansions and early skyscrapers. Although more than one-fourth of the structures surveyed by HABS no longer exist, the data on those that still stand can serve as guides to restoration and the formulation of intelligent preservation policies. Only the 41 measured drawings and 57 photos in HABS files, for instance, will make possible an accurate reconstruction...