Word: reckon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less generous in allowing operational expenses to be charged to Air Transport Command flights. Result: more administrative expense had to be allocated to, commercial costs, which pushed operating costs per revenue mile up to 95? v. 83.6? last year. But these factors, some of which the airlines must always reckon with, only pointed up the obstacles they face in reducing their postwar rates. Reductions in fixed costs will be difficult to make, while the public will be hoping for heavily reduced air-travel fares...
...talk about Ernie. They found the News's 31-year-old Owner-Editor Luther B. Mathes telling how he had suggested a Pyle column for weeklies, how his idea has finally been taken up. The column was costing Editor Mathes about $1 a week, but he could reckon it a dollar well spent as he listened to his neighbors...
...partly deaf, on the mend after a hip-fracturing fall. With him lives Ernie's 78-year-old Aunt Mary Bales, sister of his late mother. Editor Mathes looked in last week to see what they thought of the weekly column. Father Pyle's verdict: "Fine, I reckon the visitors can clip it." He referred to the fact that motorists are always dropping in to say how they enjoy Ernest (he is never "Ernie" at his old home). Father Pyle keeps a scrapbook of the daily columns from the Danville, Ill. Commercial-News; Aunt Mary clips hers from...
...Helped him reckon his budget: the Government will give Kenneth tuition plus $30 a month school allotment, and $1 a month for each percent of disability-a total of more than $80 monthly...
Answer: Waiting is a great art! Waiting is also a question of nerves. It is quite possible that we must reckon with still greater damages if we want to win all. We must wait for the right "psychological-military-political" moment and then, only then, will we strike back...