Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further remodeling, the Council recommended: extending coverage immediately to some 2.800,000 ineligibles, including seamen, bank employes, and employes of non-profit religious and educational institutions, and by 1940 to 12,000,000 farm laborers and domestics; a study of the "administrative and financial problems" involved in Social Security for "self-employed" citizens, principally the nation's 32,000,000 farmers...
Following a $25,000,000 credit extended to Chinese commercial interests by the Export-Import Bank, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., announced that a fiscal arrangement assuring the Chinese government adequate dollar exchange facilities has been continued by this country beyond December...
DEMOCRACY IN THE MAKING - Hugh Russell Fraser-Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). Savory history of the Jackson-Tyler fight against the United States Bank...
...colleagues, receives $10 for every race he enters (up to last week he had entered 1,091 this year), $15 extra for every race he wins and 10% of the winning purse. His income this year is about $50,000. Although some earn more than many a bank president and others earn less than plumbers, all jockeys complain that they have to spend 50% of their earnings for expenses...
...similar sum plus 10% of his 10% share of the winning purse. A jockey also pays for his saddles (he usually owns two or three of varying weights), whips, boots, breeches and rubber reducing suit-if he has to keep his weight down. Next to losing their bank rolls, jockeys dread gaining weight. Longden and Adams are both so small (105 Ib.) that they need not diet, but most riders count their calories, knowing well that a heavy rider (118 to 125 Ibs.) gets infrequent engagements, soon discovers that he must look for a job as jockey's agent...