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...reasons are more economic than aesthetic; postage matters more than paper to the mass-circulation magazines. For those in financial straits, it is a matter of shrink or sink. Some time this year, a new, privately run U.S. Postal Service will raise second-class mailing rates by at least 50%, and probably by 100% over the next five years, to make second class pay its own way. Rates are based on weight; smaller magazines costless to mail...
...Gonna Sink. Rivers began the first of 15 consecutive terms in 1941 as the Congressman from South Carolina's First District. His initial congressional assignment was to the Naval Affairs Committee-later to become the Armed Services Committee. The focus of his legislative efforts was to get more for the military-more ships, more planes, more men, more pay, more everything...
...Polaris missile submarine base, Coast Guard station, the Sixth Naval District Headquarters and the Parris Island Marine boot camp. While Carl Vinson was still chairman of the Armed Services Committee, he once remarked to Rivers: "You put anything else down there in your district, Mendel, it's gonna sink...
...estimated at 1,400,-000, more than 71,500 are out of work; 66,000 are on county welfare rolls; 72,000 on food stamps. In little more than two years, Boeing employment has plummeted from 101,500 to 46,800. By the end of 1971 it will probably sink to 32,500. It could go as low as 25,000 if the U.S. Senate goes through with its threat to cut off funds for Boeing's SST development program, a project that still employs 4,800 workers. The company has already sold one plant, closed another, auctioned...
...floor of the Hamilton for two years. The apartment is a horror. In the bathroom, peeling paint drips leaking water from the toilet in the bathroom above; a film of water containing feces gleams dully on the floor. Roaches and other bugs swarm over the walls, the bathtub and sink. A rotting pipe in the corner has a dual purpose: it doubles as the children's "tree;" because Mary is afraid to allow the children outside, the youngsters' occasionally exercise by climbing the pipe when...