Word: tab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he gets the Times, Field plans to make the Sun a tab too and put out a joint Sunday edition called the Sun-Times. Field will find the Times (circ. 474,000) a paper that sees things his own, New Dealing way, under the guidance of an able, deceptively benign-looking publisher named Richard James Finnegan. The Times has been profitable, which is more than the Sun can say. The Sun will lose its sour-faced executive editor, E. Z. ("Dimmy") Dimitman, whom Field imported from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dimmy never did have much use for his boss...
...payment of the bonus, Dewey had an equally Spartan prescription. He wanted it paid off in ten years by means of an additional 1? tax on cigarets, a 20% increase in present income taxes. Democrats, who wanted business to pay the tab, wailed that veterans would be paying for their own bonus. Tom Dewey didn't say they wouldn't. But if the people wanted to vote a bonus, Dewey meant to see that they knew what it would cost...
...Washington, economists of the International Emergency Food Council (whose job is keeping tab on food production, recommending fair division of the scarcities) made a prognosis. Said Council Secretary General Dennis A. FitzGerald: ". . . The world is eating a little better this winter than last [but] the improvement is small. . . . In the Lower Danube Basin and the adjacent parts of the U.S.S.R. food conditions range from no better to much worse. In India and the Far East . . . the patient is by no means out of danger...
...free tickets, but many show up to speak their minds about radio. First they are screened to match the particular program's national audience. (Says Schwerin: "There is no such thing as a typical radio audience.") Then they listen to programs, recording their reactions on a tab sheet. About every 30 seconds they check the "good," "fair," or "poor" column. After Jan. 1, testers will use a mechanical gadget called the "reacto-caster," developed by Schwerin's father...
...wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities had risen a thumping 22.4% since the beginning of July. One big boost still stuck. From June 15 to July 15 retail food prices had soared 13.8%, the largest monthly jump in the 43 years since the Bureau had been keeping tab on them. (Actually, the real price to the consumer did not go up quite as much because of the abolition of subsidies on decontrolled products, which he must no longer pay via taxes.) Food prices dropped only slightly after the revival...