Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing Doing. Small-time operators are particularly unwelcome at firms whose operations are badly snarled. Hayden, Stone & Co., which last month decided to close ten offices and fire 200 of its 1,100 customers' men, has told survivors that they will not be paid for taking orders that earn less than $12 in commissions. Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis says no to anyone who wants to open a new account with an order of less than $1,000 for a listed stock, or $5,000 for an over-the-counter stock. E.F. Hutton & Co. turns down would-be clients with...
...Stock Exchange reduced the fees on trades of more than 1,000 shares, dropping them from an average .89% to .84% on the value of each transaction. This will cost the brokers about $150 million in commissions next year, or roughly 7% of what they might have expected to earn on the big trades. Oddly, to make up the difference, brokers are clamoring for an increase in commissions on trans actions of fewer than 100 shares. Such commissions range upward from a minimum...
...where he can earn a princely $12 per hour denuding sheep, the shearer contributes to the high cost of woolen garments. But the shearer's days of glory may well be numbered...
...chore that would cause rather substantial changes in the IRS bureaucracy. The negative income tax would have a further practical drawback. Middle-income workers would not benefit at all, as they would with family allowances, and they would undoubtedly balk at paying taxes to subsidize people who earn only a few hundred dollars less than they themselves make. However, the objections, big as they are, diminish when they are placed next to the welfare monstrosity that now exists...
...Animal Re search Branch at Beltsville, Md. If the effect could be produced only when the sheep's wool was long, he reasoned, the fibers could easily be pulled, instead of sheared from the animal. And the un skilled farm labor needed for the simplified job would earn only about $2.50 per hour, sharply reducing costs to the wool industry. Taking up the project at Terrill's suggestion, Agriculture Biologist Ethel Dolnick and Physiologist Ivan Lindahl began feeding varying amounts of a nitrogen-mustard anti-tumor drug to experimental sheep...