Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Congress heard President Roosevelt's special message on Relief last fortnight, requesting an additional $875,000,000 to operate WPA from February through June 1939, some of the biggest spenders on Capitol Hill widened their eyes. That would be spending at the same rate as in June of last year, when WPA plunged in to meet Depression II, now superseded by Recovery. With whoops of economic righteousness, the House of Representatives last week fell upon the President's WPA request...
...second in the furlong, Nod Goldwasser, Junior sprinter, annexed a fighting second-place in the 50. Goldwasser's career in the pool now reads like a story-book. He has graduated from the ranks of the House swimmers to the Varsity reserves, and finally has outdone himself in first-rate competition to return a dynamic 24.4 against Brown, beating Matt Soltysiak, Bruin iron-man, for second...
...incubation period the lice are dissected. About 150 intestines are placed in a sterilized mortar with a few drops of glycerin and carbolic acid (to assure sterility), and Dr. Weigl pounds the mess with a sterilized pestle. Result: one dose of immunizing typhus vaccine. At this rate, said Marianne, Professor Weigl makes less than one hundred life-saving doses a year...
...railroad fares be "postalized." Fortnight ago Mr. Hastings popped up again with his scheme, took a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to propound it. Under "postalization," the U. S. would be divided into nine zones, and for each of five types of passenger service the same rate would be charged for travel anywhere within a given zone. Examples : New York to Albany, $1 ; New York to Chicago, $1. There would also be suburban zones-15? for a single trip, 25? for a round trip...
Would this ultimate in rate-slashing produce a compensating increase in traffic? Although passengers provide only 10% of total U. S. train revenue, most Eastern roads get an abnormal share of their revenue from passengers (the New Haven gets 36%). For them, the success of postalized fares would probably depend on whether the bargain rates for commuters inspired an exodus to the "suburban zones...