Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prices were an indication of the times. Some 47,000 grandstand seats along the parade route were sold out-at $2 to $10 a throw. Street concessionaires posted their price lists: coffee, 15?; hot dogs, 20?. Washington hotels had been booked solid for months-some at triple the normal rate-and clamorous visitors were begging for sleeping space as far away as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
Unlike the daily newspapers, which do a first-rate job of sports coverage, TIME is not immediately concerned with who won. Anyone who cares can find that out before the weekly issue of TIME reaches the newsstand. The editors of TIME believe that all of their news columns should be of interest to all readers, and Sport, therefore, has to give the news, satisfy the experts among TIME'S readers, and be clearly understandable to the uninitiated, as well. That is not an easy assignment, and Smith spends considerable time out of the office (e.g., the 1948 Olympic Games...
...general, "increasing experience makes the pilot safer"; a 50-year-old pilot who is mentally and physically alert is "much safer" than a younger pilot of less intelligence and poorer coordination. Among transport pilots, lowest records for accidents were among the under-30 group; after 30, the rate went up. Probably, thinks McFarland, the oldsters suffer from overconfidence...
...Dishonor. Ghostwriter Considine dashes off his fast-moving autobiographies while their heroes still rate Page One, takes one-third of the "author's" royalties as his cut. His General Wainwright's Story was in print before Wainwright was out of the hospital. While Ted Lawson was still recovering from wounds suffered in Doolittle's Tokyo raid, Considine finished Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo...
...complaint charged other monopolistic practices: refusal by A.T. & T. to let outside manufacturers use alternative patents which Western Electric was not using; suppression of cheaper improvements that might cut A.T. & T.'s rate bases. Example: the hand telephone, developed in 1907, was not introduced as standard equipment until...