Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rutgers is favored to take the honors of the 50, the 100, the medley, and the relay. For the first time, the Crimson will be meeting two first rate divers, as well as a galaxy of ace water operators...
Perhaps the Odets drama has lost just a little of its fiery workers-of-the-world-unite spirit--at any rate the current Pasadena address of its anther hangs in the background to dispel any idealist fervor. But the Dramatic Club cast manages to wring from the script more of the tragic social significance than could be expected perhaps even of a professional group...
Kaiser's own shipping costs for steel from his Fontana plant had gone up 17½% in the general freight rate carriers. At the news that his Utah competitor was actually getting a reduction, he jumped as if someone had dropped a hot rivet in his pocket. The lowered Geneva freight cut, he cried, would amount to a "subsidy of some $1,200,000 a year" to Geneva. In his complaint Kaiser had some strange allies: the eastern steel companies, competitors of U.S. Steel, whom he had long condemned...
...week's end, on the day before the reduction was to go into effect, the ICC agreed to hold up the rate changes while it investigates. It looked as if the West would not get cheaper steel from Big Steel unless Henry Kaiser got a freight reduction...
Bluff, brusque, beefy Gilbert rated his own comedy highly, but had as little respect for Partner Arthur Sullivan's desire to write "solemn" music as he had for the poetical esthetes he pilloried in Patience. In fact, satirical Gilbert and solemn Sullivan collaborated best when they kept apart, exchanging their respective words and music chiefly by mail. But Sullivan, sentiment, and a first-rate business sense all combined to keep Gilbert's satirical aptitude in bounds...