Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This mountainous load of work resulted in 17 bills being sent up Pennsylvania Avenue for the President's signature. Only two are of even passing importance--one an exemption from taxation of Mr. Rockefeller's gift to the United Nations, the other an extension of the war-time rate of certain excise taxes. The rest concern such vital issues as annual rates of pay for Senate clerical staffs, the Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission, installation of a storm drain under certain lands in Los Angeles, and payments to Switzerland for the sinking of the Awa Maru...
...rate, Lowell is scheduled to face an Eli team in swimming...
...Department should be abolished, and the capital moved closer to the heart of the country. Wright thought cities should be abandoned. "The city," Wright averred, "is a stimulus similar to alcohol, ending in similar degeneracy or impotence-for no city can maintain itself by way of its own birth rate, and a glance at history shows us that all civilizations have died of their cities...
...Methods. Despite some weak spots, CAB is now functioning with a great deal more dispatch than ever before. It is also being a lot tougher. It has indeed dished out some mail-rate boosts to help floundering lines. And it will probably grant an average boost in passenger rates from 4.5? to 5? a mile. An increase in air mail from 5? to 6? is in the offing too. Even CAB thought it had cut rates too fast, led astray by abnormal war traffic...
...World as a theme for "The Secret Heart," "there are three things you cannot hide--love, smoke, and a man riding on a camel." According to a waggish U.T. aisle-sitter, there is a fourth--the relation of this proverb to the rest of the picture. At any rate, MGM has beaten together another Freudian free-for-all combining misunderstood childhood and the Navy's views on darning socks in so mangled a melee that even the participating psychiatrist doesn't know all the answers...