Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts-and a bulwark against the uproar occasioned when we misspell somebody's name. These are only a fragment, however, of the 29,000 reference books I find we now have in the morgue* for the convenience of TIME'S editors, who call for them at the rate of about 500 a week-plus an average 40 or 50 that have to be obtained from local libraries...
...recalled how he earned his first money: "I entered into collective bargaining by which it was settled that I should receive one cent per hundred for picking potato bugs in a field in sight of this stand. My impression then, and now, is that it was an oppressive wage rate...
...witnessed what they thought was the first religious skywriting since the invention of the airplane:* a plane which inscribed an eleven-mile-long JESUS SAVES in white smoke. The stunt was the brain child of the Rev. Bert Turner, 36, an itinerant evangelist. The skywriting company reduced its usual rate to $10 a word, threw in a free cross between the two words and a couple more at the end, "if the pilot had any smoke left...
...issue of the New York Daily News, ticket agencies representing the wildcats (for commissions as high as 20%) ran five different ads for cut-rate "air coach" flights to the West Coast. In Los Angeles, eight agencies were advertising. Prevailing rate: $99 plus tax (35% cheaper than the scheduled airlines' fare...
Canon City (Eagle Lion). Last winter, in the most sensational jailbreak of the year, twelve more or less desperate convicts escaped from the state penitentiary at Canon City, Colo. Within three days they were all either recaptured or killed (TIME, Jan. 12). This was a subject for a first-rate movie. Canon City is not that good, but it is exciting, intelligent and unpretentious. It begins as a straight documentary, presented with gratifying simplicity and quietness, then gently eases in among the professional players, who re-enact the break and the man hunt...