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...change -has piled deficit upon deficit on New York's subways. Not until 1982 will the last of the present transit debt be paid off. Fortnight ago, an apprehensive Citizens Budget Commission put the total ultimate cost to the city of existing lines at $3,295,000,000, offset by estimated past and future revenues of $1,105,000,000. But under Unification the Board of Transportation hopes to cut down expenses. Last week it was estimated that operating costs plus interest, before depreciation, had been reduced to 6¼? a passenger...
...stature as it was last year, but there is some hope that Harvard may have ten capable hoopmen instead of only six or seven to throw into big games this season. The difference between the first and second teams is not great, and Coach Fesler may be able to offset the decided lack of height by shooting fresh men into the game repeatedly...
...from, slipping into her program, she once spent an entire Sunday touring picnic grounds to discover how picnickers enjoyed a soft drink she was plugging, advised her listeners next day that she hadn't discovered a bottle of the stuff in any lunch basket she had examined. To offset such commercial gaucheries, Miss McBride made a point of eating products while discussing them on the air on the theory that she could better describe their goodness while actually going to work on them. This did not help her to reduce. Sponsored now by the Florida Citrus Commission, she serves...
...space, and has not enough warships to safeguard her own sea lanes. Yet the Moslem faithful of India this week set sail for Mecca in British ships, convoyed by the Royal Navy, paying pre-war fares ($52 for deck space, $186 first class) for the privilege. Government subsidies will offset any possible loss to the shipowners. In his resting place (halfway between heaven and earth), Mohammed the Prophet was doubtless gratified...
...flow." But "each high-water mark has reached farther than its predecessor, and each recession has not been so low as the one before it." Though the Church is now under fire in Russia, Germany, Japan and elsewhere, "the decline has been at least in part offset by numerical and territorial gains and by new currents of life...