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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Bingham yesterday announced "the most drastic revision in football ticket policy since football became a major sport." The shift, which will give non-alumni season ticket holders a new priority for Yale tickets, will not affect undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAA Releases New Policy on Grid Tickets | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

...calmed down. Crowell-Col-lier's top management was prepared to string along with Ruppel: in one year, Collier's advertising linage had dropped 15%, and Crowell-Collier's profits had plummeted from $4,866,000 to $2,419,-ooo. For these deep-seated troubles, a drastic cure was needed. Louis Ruppel was about the most drastic remedy to be found anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stop the Presses | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Where Alexander Came From. When it became clear that economic pressure would not dislodge Tito, the Cominform decided on a more drastic strategy. The new base of operations against Tito's Yugoslavia was to be Macedonia, the wild, barren stretch of country which is distinguished in history chiefly for sending Alexander the Great into the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Great Schism | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Drastic reduction of costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man-Made Inferno | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...President Speaks. Bursting with self-confidence, the President said that he thought the proposed cloture rule should be even more drastic than the one Russell Long & Co. were talking down. He said he would favor applying cloture by a simple majority vote. Under such a rule, 25 Senators (a simple majority of a functioning quorum of 49) would be able to end a Senate debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Talking Out of Turn | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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