Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the MTA had been in operation for a year, the transit deficit was $9,000,000--an increase of $4,000,000 over the previous year's loss; and this month, the deficit is increasing at the rate of $40 per minute. In the reorganization, the State disregarded many other financial and organizational disabilities besides the stock issue that the company had incurred in its twenty years of corrupt management...
...reorganization itself brought new financial burdens. Though the millstone of gross profit dividends was removed from the public neck, it was done so very extravagantly. The State bought up the old El stocks at $85 per share when the market value of the stock averaged $57.50 and, in twenty years, had not exceeded $73. In reorganization, too, the public ownership clause exempted the new company from participation in the Federal Social Security Act benefits. The MTA had to set up its own pension system at an annual cost of $1,400,000. To add to the staggering totals, the outgoing...
...result of the inadequate reorganization was not only the enormous deficit but also the complete deterioration of the MTA's rolling stock; 80 per cent of the equipment is over ten years obsolete. The best innovations that the MTA can afford are the slovenly changes in those select trains on the Cambridge-Dorchester line...
...trouble broke out when the Princeton Graduate Interclub Committee announced its intention Wednesday to limit club football weekends to two per season, neither of them on the Yale weekend...
...East, cautious exhibitors waited to be convinced. It would be expensive to install the big TV equipment. (Current estimate: $25,000 per theater.) An even bigger headache: supplying the money and imagination for the kind of TV shows that will persuade customers to leave their living-room sets and buy tickets...