Word: tags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choices. Big corporations like General Motors have been shopping for months among the best U.S. technical schools. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, each of the 548 seniors can turn down two jobs for the one he picks; the 49 prospective Ph.D.'s have 25 offers apiece. Average price tag on a Bachelor of Science: $225 to $300 a month; on Ph.D.s...
Persuaders. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Louis Booth, charged with failing to put a nickel in a parking meter, convinced the judge that the meter was installed after he parked his car. In Lancaster, Pa., Tag Manufacturer Martin M. Keener paid his fine on an overtime parking charge, left the police station with an order for 9,000 parking tags...
...Tag & a Rifle. Half the people of the Northwest Territories are Eskimos, and their tribal ways have been difficult to fit to Canada's 20th Century social legislation. Exhibit A is the baby bonus. On Feb. 28, no less than 3,101 Eskimo children were registered for family allowances made available on July 1, 1945. But administration is difficult. In the first place, an Eskimo child has only a temporary name until he is about ten years old. In addition, families are always on the move. The Mounties have tried to solve the problem by giving each child...
...evening's tag-end bout in Manhattan's smoky St. Nicholas Arena, and the fans were paying less attention to the two indifferent welterweights than to the referee. He was Benny Leonard, onetime great lightweight, now a paunchy 51 but still an agile man in the ring. Dancing out of the fighters' way in the first round, he suddenly toppled to the canvas. Tripping over his own feet was something new for Benny Leonard; the fans laughed...
...order to earn my living I became a permanent contributor of articles and illustrations to the Tag and Stunde, the only democratic papers left in town. In 1938 the Nazis came. To my early Berlin sins were added all the anti-Hitler newspaper work I had done in Vienna, and I had to go into hiding. The dominant thought of all of us hunted for political, racial, or both reasons, was to get out. Under the quota I would have to wait two years to get my U.S. immigration visa. Meanwhile, the problem was to keep alive and away from...