Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aged (85), ailing Joseph Palmer Knapp and his Publication Corp. (Alco-Gravure, Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.) control This Week. But on editorial affairs, says Nichols, "I have to please 24 bosses"-the editors of the subscribing newspapers (which pay $10 to $15 per 1,000 copies, depending on the size of the supplement, and share its profits, around $3 per 1,000 circulation in 1948). To please them, he shuns anything controversial...
...unskilled rainmakers, Langmuir explained, looking coldly at the Weather Bureau, is that they don't pick the right kind of cloud. Unless at least part of the cloud is below freezing, the dry ice will not work. Another mistake: using too much dry ice. A few pounds per mile are usually enough. If the plane dumps too much, too many ice particles are formed. They are so light that they do not fall. The overdose of dry ice merely turns the cloud of water droplets into a cloud of floating ice crystals...
...company cut no extra share of the dividend pie. Armco Steel, with a 28% increase in its profit to $32 million, boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half the current market price of its stock. Even tiny Barium Steel, which had never paid a dividend, declared one of 10% in stock...
...points in this program are: 1) Federal and local subsidy for construction of 200,000 housing units per year for two years. 2) Federal allocation of funds for research into housing problems. 3) Gradual reduction of rent controls to reduce the risk in construction of rental housing. 4) Funds for large scale urban re-development. 5) Establishment of machinery to stimulate replacement building in periods of economic depression in order to stabilize the construction industry and thereby produce lower construction costs...
Full time summer students will receive credit for a half term with a tuition charge of $50 per eight week course and $40 for the abbreviated six week courses. The Union will serve meals Monday through Friday only at the rate of $10.25 a week...