Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, with the termination of the contract, Southern coal operators stopped all payments to the Miners' Welfare Fund. This fund was set up under the wage agreement of 1947 and stipulated that coal miners would pay a 20 cent-a-ton royalty for pensions and sickness benefits. The Southerners argued that with the end of the contract, they were no longer obligated to make payments, especially in view of the three-day week...
...Murray saw it, workers should not have to put up a red cent. He argued that anything they were forced to put up for their welfare would represent a deduction from their take-home...
...With a four dollar pound it was much less profitable for British sellers to export to the dollar area than to the soft-currency areas. the thirty per cent devaluation should now make exports to the United States just about as profitable as to the non-dollar areas," Smithies points out. "I doubt if anything besides devaluation would have worked. And without devaluation the United States either would have to continue subsidizing Britain beyond 1952 or else abandon her to wrestle with the financial crisis that would seem bound to occur...
...will arise. Professor Smithies is optimistic about this point: "I think British costs can stay down because I don't believe there is much likelihood that wages will rise by much. And even if wages and costs should rise somewhat, they can't possible rise by the thirty per cent of devaluation...
This year, with 880 undergraduates expressing interest in PBH at registration, Brooks House has the potential manpower to operate at 25 per cent above last year--a year which in itself, in PBH history, was a big year...