Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the aspirants for the ministry will probably end up on the layman's side of the chancel rail. Even with an ambitious building program well under way, Virginia Theological Seminary will be able to accept only 40% of this year's close-to-200 applicants. The total number of graduates from all Episcopal seminaries in 1949 will be only 190, as against an estimated 187 clergymen who will be withdrawn during the year because of death, retirement, etc. More than on any other single factor, the Alexandria conference agreed, the future of the Episcopal Church seems...
Chloroform. The airline industry might find it could not afford to lose them all. The nonskeds had tapped a new market by making air travel cheap enough to lure bus and rail-coach riders who never flew before. If some of the irregulars had irregular safety records, they had also proved to the scheduled airlines that they could fill their planes by cutting frills and fares. Nevertheless, many scheduled airlines still agreed with ex-CAB Chairman James M, Landis that the U.S. was cluttered with too many airlines. "An intrinsically weak airline," he told a Senate committee last week, "either...
...Beware likewise the Timer; for he riseth early in the day and loitereth by the rail in search of the Fast Horse, but Hell will freeze over are he risketh a long Shot; and verily I say he shall have his reward...
Last week, while the diggers assembled their findings, another expedition was hunting for moas. Dr. Geoffrey B. Orbell, who had proved that the supposedly extinct takahe, a member of the rail family, was flourishing in southwestern South Island (TIME, Dec. 20), was out for bigger game. Though the supersized moas are dead & gone, Dr. Orbell has hopes that the little (turkey-sized) Anomalopteryx moa has not yet kicked its last...
Abbott also announced a cut in some corporate taxes, then set about wiping out or paring down excise and luxury taxes. The 15% travel tax on plane and rail fares and the tax on sleeping-car berths were dropped. So were taxes on long-distance telephone calls, telegrams, soda pop, gum and candy. The 25% tax on jewelry was shifted from retailer to wholesaler and reduced to 10% (immediate effect: retail stocks of jewelry were tax-free...