Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rental system remains the greatest operative inefficiency. Though the cities and towns of the metropolitan area pay the MTA's yearly deflect, they still demand rental fees from the transit lines for the use of their streets. In Boston, the MTA must pay for the use of all subways and elevated structures because the 'Boston Transit Department built and owns them; the MTA pays the city of Boston over $2,000,000 yearly. The most flagrant inconsistency is that the MTA, though State owned must pay the State for the use of the Cambridge-Park Street tunnel...
Membership in the new church has grown by 795,002-from 7,856,060 to 8,651,062-an increase of more than 10%. Contributions for use outside local churches zoomed from $11 million in 1940 to $28 million last year. The value of church property rose from $704,000,000 to $1,077,000,000. Most dramatic figure of all: though local mergers have reduced the number of churches, there are now 5,000 more Methodist Sunday schools (37,908) with an average attendance that has grown 18% in the last four years...
...Ward's at 28, after five years of private practice. Quick to catch on, he was named assistant secretary within three weeks, secretary in less than a year and a half. Avery, who was often in trouble with New Deal bureaus, soon found that he had plenty of use for a keen legal mind. Ball, a big (6 ft. 2½ in.) man with a smooth courtroom manner, saw Avery safely through his many scrapes with NLRB-including the one that led to the U.S. Army's wartime eviction of Avery and Government seizure of his plant...
...hear from a Linz salesman about the time he buys his first Cadillac. In their modest little sample cases the salesmen might carry a fortune in jewels. To stay out of the way of thieves, they travel under assumed names, never get too clubby in the club cars, and use a code to communicate with the home office. None has ever been robbed...
Last fall, a field man reported to President Melvin that several dentists in his territory were excited over ammoniated dentifrices. Researchers at the University of Illinois and at Manhattan's Sydenham Hospital, testing the use of urea and dibasic ammonium phosphate to kill bacteria associated with tooth decay, had reported promising results...