Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juniors in the Class of '49 were promised by a Student Council committee investigating the financial standings of the 1919 Book that they would undoubtedly receive it before their Senior year. Perhaps Student Council investigation to bring order out of present Red Book chaos will produce a first-rate publication by the end of the year. But even if a fine Red-Book eventually emerges, the Council will merely be putting a band-aid on a chronic rash if it considers the issue closed...
Born. To Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, 37, and Prince Bernhard, 35: their fourth child, fourth daughter (the others: Beatrix, 9, Irene, 7, Margriet, 4); at Soestdijk Palace, The Netherlands. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz. Daughter's birth rated a 51-gun salute, a quarter-hour's pealing of church bells (a son-who would have been the first male heir to the throne in 62 years-would rate 101 guns, a half-hour's bell-ringing...
...then Reynolds had a much better idea. Why not keep on making the old models? At week's end, Reynolds frantically began turning them out again at the rate of 80,000 a day. They would sell for $1 or less all over the U.S. Said a Reynolds executive: "We have acres of diamonds right in our back yard." Said Reynolds himself: "It's simply crazy...
Railroad men snorted that Colonel Johnson was talking through his bureaucratic hat. Railroads ordered 9,000 cars in January alone, would order more if production was speeded up and there was assurance that the cars could be made soon. But the present production rate, 2,500 a month, did not even match the junking rate of 5,000 to 7,000 a month...
...Camille's tired parrying of Louie, a diffident but brutal tinhorn Don Juan, are clever little stories in themselves. He writes with delicacy of the blundering stratagems and satisfactions of an adolescent mechanic called Pimples. But in theme and design the novel is a disappointing piece of second-rate, back-to-the-bulls fiction. Moreover, Steinbeck writes carelessly. Mrs. Pritchard has never known a day's pain on page 64; on page 210 she begins to get one of her periodic, prostrating migraines...