Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life returned to the Congressional Palace, where President Juan Perón's constitutional convention had sat idle for three weeks. Briskly, on orders from the Casa Rosada, the convention approved a final, edited copy of the new constitution-almost exactly as the President himself had read it to the Peronista caucus two months before (TIME...
Rankin's bill, which is now in the House Rules Committee, would provide $90 per month to unemployed war veterans at the age of 65. The cost of the bill has been estimated at $198 billion, over nine times the projected cost of the Marshall Plan...
Since fewer meals will, presumably, be taken at the Dinning Halls, I find it very singular that the average, and hence the total, charge per person should rise rather than diminish: in other words, that the Dining Galls management either cannot deal accurately with figures or does not wish to, two alternatives which one is equally reluctant to accept. Harold P. Furth...
...presumption that fewer meals will be served is not, according toe Dining Hall officials, correct. They estimate, in fact, that under a contract system the average number of meals per week each man will eat will be 17 and on half--not 16. This figure is based on a pre-war contract system where out of 100 men, 55 ate 21 meals each week, 35 ate 14, and 10 ate 10. (The editorial in question erroneously stated that 10 percent would eat 7 meals, at a charge of $10, instead of 10 meals). The total number of meals per...
Last night, still short five new members, we were forced to close up our pyramid, and accept a $2 loss per person...