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...make a shambles out of Tokyo." Even sympathetic colleagues were abashed at his belligerency. Unsympathetic colleagues saw red. (Isolationist Senator Tobey, picking up a story written by Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Thomas L. Stokes, suggested that Senator Pepper had used his office to get part of a defense contract for a Florida asphalt company, thereby precipitating such a rancorous side battle that the Senate finally expunged the debate from the record...
...Sculptor Lorado Taft at Chicago, she analyzed materials from living trees, old log cabins and bridges, refuse from sawmills and barrel factories, charcoal from old campfires, relics from Indian caves and graves, a ton of tree sections supplied by a Wisconsin paper manufacturer who had just taken a paper contract for LIFE. She patiently placed pieces hundreds of years old in sequence by their overlapping ring patterns, and reconstructed growth calendars for several types of trees...
...committee of the National Association of Broadcasters met with ASCAP, got nowhere in a four-hour session. Just as unfruitful was subsequent dickering. Now ASCAP is trying to deal separately with individual chains and stations, but it still hasn't figured out a mutually agreeable form of contract...
Tuition Plan does no dunning. If a parent fails to pay in a reasonable time, the school is obligated to buy back the contract and then collect as best it can. But among several thousand contracts so far written, Tuition Plan has never had one that failed...
Tuition Plan, Inc. is patterned after commercial installment systems. A parent signs a contract with a school, which sells the contract to the agency, and in return receives its full tuition price at the beginning of each term. Tuition Plan sends the parent a monthly bill (adding 4% for its services), collects the money in eight installments. Chief difference between Tuition Plan and an automobile credit company: if the customer fails to pay, the credit company can repossess his car, but Tuition Plan cannot foreclose on the child...