Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basic principles of radio...
...Cabinet had given no instructions how the pay cuts were made but merely told the Admiralty the total amounts to be saved, the fleet heard last week that midshipmen and junior officers would scarcely be docked at all while ordinary seamen and the lower ratings were to receive a basic pay cut of 25%. Hardest hit were veterans who had enlisted prior to 1925, when an earlier reduction from Wartime pay went into effect with the understanding that sailors who had enlisted prior to that date would continue to draw pay at the original rate...
...course aims to establish an acquaintanceship with the basic principles which underlie the subject of real estate. It is designed for men who as brokers, agents, or operators expect to control real property, or who, in the capacity of investors, bankers, or trustees, are likely to be called upon to exercise their judgment with respect to investments in land...
...basic income tax rate was raised to 25%. Coalition Philip Snowden having restored in his 1930-31 budget the 6d lopped off the tax by Conservative Winston Churchill in 1925, last week restored the 6d which Conservative Baldwin cut away in 1923. The tax climbed back to five shillings in the pound. The surtax rate on all incomes over $9,720 has been raised 10% in all brackets. Exemptions have been cut to incomes of only $486 a year for single persons and $729 for childless married...
...composed it was Merry-Go-Round making money. Briskly and irreverently, they had set forth the gossipy details of Washington social and political life in a manner new and interesting to those not intimately familiar with the capital. While their characterization of individuals was a matter of opinion, the basic facts of which they wrote were passing into national history...