Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down . . ." Stassen's national headquarters, which occupies the whole tenth floor of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Building, hums like a fraternity in rush week. Telephone calls pour in at the rate of 1,000 a day. In a huge mailroom, some 60 volunteers run clacking mimeograph machines, stuff envelopes, mail out an average of 300,000 letters a day. The volunteers, who work in shifts, are drawn from a pool of 700 society women, debutantes, office girls who come in after hours...
...most M.P.s thought the death penalty had little influence on the murder rate. Some recalled that objections like Ede's were raised more than a century ago to oppose the reform of Britain's brutal criminal laws. In George III's reign, more than 200 crimes were punishable by death. Among them: felling a tree, picking a pocket, associating with gypsies for a month. In 1810, to a proposal to abolish 'the death penalty for shoplifting of articles worth five shillings or more, Lord Ellenborough had solemnly objected: "I trust your lordships will pause before...
...solutions to the problem, none of which is in any way feasible. A crazed group of students, fresh from a rally, could destroy the thing, or perhaps a facade of red brick might be built around it, making it resemble Memorial Hall as much as possible. At any rate, it is important to keep one's television sets tuned and one's muskets ready. If the structure is viewed with alarm long and hard enough, it may fall down by itself...
...When these two stand up and slug it out there is little doubt . . . who is the coming champ." Langhoff warned sponsors against wearing out the television audience with tediously repeated commercials. Since television demands undivided attention of the viewer, said Langhoff, it also "induces fatigue at a much greater rate than . . . radio, and possibly encourages sly drooping of the eyelids during the duller portions of a program...
Raise Granted. The Civil Aeronautics Board granted a 35% mail-rate boost to five major domestic airlines-American, Eastern, Northwest, T.W.A., and United. For all but American the boost was retroactive to Jan. 1. American had not asked for a boost, let alone a retroactive one, but CAB decided it should have the increase anyway. The new rate schedule would give the lines another $5,271,000 in revenue this year...