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...high as 65? a passenger mile v. an average 5½? on commercial flights. The cost can be much higher if a corporation does not dispatch the plane with all the care of a commercial airline, making sure it is in constant use. But businessmen can cite other kinds of economy, such as the case where a salesman, flown direct to a customer in a company plane, signed up a $1,000,000 order before his competition could get there on commercial lines. Planes also have become invaluable for rush deliveries. When Rynel Corp., a small Illinois metal-gear manufacturer...
Department colleagues say that George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, has a rare knack of putting people at ease. They are also quick to cite his readiness to cut red tape; or to voice an opinion on matters that displease him. Kistiakowsky has devoted most of his life to fighting those things that displease him: first the Bolsheviks, then the Nazis, and again the Communists...
...betray him. Lautner refused to let him quit: if New York's Communist-dominated American Labor Party gained more political power. Miller might well have become police commissioner. The Communist lieutenant accepted the verdict, stayed faithfully on duty until the department finally gathered enough solid evidence to cite him for trial. But Miller disappeared in a flash after that, and last week's proceedings (which resulted in his dismissal from the force) were conducted with the defendant's chair empty...
Mice & Monopoly. As an automaker, Fiat specializes in small, low-horsepower models that can negotiate Europe's twisting roads and give good mileage on its expensive gasoline. Most Italians, however, find them too high-priced, complain that Fiat could afford to cut prices. They cite the fact that in Paris, where there is competition, the new Fiat "1100" sells for $235 less than in Italy. Even the Italians who can afford Fiat's two bestselling cars, the Topolino (Little Mouse) at $1,146, and the "1100" at $1,608, must be prepared to put down a $320 deposit...
...admitted he was a member of the Communist Party, which he left in 1942. He would not answer any questions about his associates, not on grounds of the Fifth Amendment, but purely on moral grounds. The trustees of Sarah Lawrence backed Goldman, while the Jenner Committee failed to even cite him for contempt...