Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some of them were full of tiny round specks not present in healthy nerves. By extracting the nerve samples at different times, the doctors proved that the particles crept slowly up the nerve from the point of entry. They moved about 2 mm. (1/12 inch) an hour-roughly the rate that polio infection is known to advance along nerves...
Airlines. Some U.S. airlines raised their basic fares 10%-and started a rate war. Eastern, T.W.A. and United announced that they would also raise their extra-fare (DC6 and Constellation) rates, which had been around 10% higher than ordinary fares. American Airlines, which thought the traffic was already being charged all it would bear, kept the present fare on DC-6s, wiping out the extra-fare differential and underselling the other lines. The new basic fares brought the U.S. average to 6? a mile (highest since 1935), compared to a 3? average for railroad coach fares...
...Kansas City manufacturer ships his product to New York for export, the railroads grant him a special low export rate. During the war the nation's biggest export shipper was the Government; but its shipments never carried their foreign destination, and were often held for weeks at inland storage points to prevent port jams. Says the Government: it usually paid the full freight rate. For such "overcharges," Attorney General Tom Clark last week asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to make U.S. railroads refund "between $1 and $3 billion...
...What stung them most were murmurs by Government men that railroaders had infiltrated the Army & Navy transportation services and had been able to bill the Government to benefit their companies. Snapped New York Central's President Gustav Metzman: "The Government was not in any instance charged a higher rate than commercial shippers . . . I would like to testify to the conscientious service rendered by our railroad...
Last week the baleful word marijuana* was on every Hollywood tongue. The most self-conscious city of a self-conscious nation was in for a first-rate scandal, and it hated and feared every whisper...