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...equal to the emergency. To obviate the criticism that House members might be paying for privileges enjoyed by outsiders, a fee of ten dollars could be charged for the use of a House library. Clearly the situation must be avoided in the future through more cautious admission and downward revisions in rental scales, but these expedients would insure that the present overflow of innocent victims would not be seriously inconvenienced...
...large cellar which Armakeli had built; he had once said in one of his ecstatic moments that to die happily one had to be prostrate, with mouth opened and with a spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident he had prognosticated to a skeptical people that the day would arrive when they would no longer laugh at his whimsicalities but praise his foresight; and the day had come. Armakeli's compatriots sang ubilantly...
...plan: to weed out about 3,000 and reduce the present personnel to 9,000); 3) cancel Government contracts, including air and ocean mail subsidies, and remake them on better terms; 4) eliminate the year's pay now given to surplus graduates from the Naval Academy; 5) readjust downward the extra flying pay now allowed Army, Navy and Marine aviators...
...stepped into the control car of the Akron's sister ship in a red dawn two days later. His wife and daughter were looking on, 105 souls were aboard when Captain Dresel commanded, "Up ship!" and the brand-new U. S. S. Macon, her eight propellers swiveled downward, rose for her first flight...
...Mexico had the highest 1931 birth rate-28.4 per 1,000 population. Nevada had the lowest-13.2 per 1,000. New Mexico's rate has risen slightly the past several years. Contiguous Arizona has had no general downward trend. Both States have a large Mexican population...