Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the Russians imposed their blockade last spring, a troublesome currency situation has existed in West Berlin. The Western Allies permitted the use of the Russians' East marks as legal tender alongside the West's own currency. In their own half of Berlin, the Russians had shown...
Premiums are raised through a 6% payroll tax, shared equally by employees and employers. Austria, since 1888, has copied the German pattern. More than 6,500,000, or 90% of the population, are now health-insured. White-collar workers contribute 4.2%, and manual laborers 5 to 6.5% of their wages...
Murphy injured his eye in a squash accident a week and a half ago and his athletic activities are still restricted according to doctor's orders.
Mr. Truman began his off-the-cuff speech with some nostalgic comments on the military life of General Vaughan, artillery man in World War I, lieutenant colonel in World War II until he was hospitalized home after an airplane accident. Then the President of the U.S. stuck his jaw out...
Scanning the news services, Farm Editor Partridge read about a freak farm accident in Yukon, Okla. An angry 1,200-lb. Hereford (nicknamed Grady by a reporter) had charged Farmer Bill Mach. When Mach prudently sidestepped, Grady kept on going, right through a small feed-door (about the size of...