Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contributing to the annuity fund for 45 years, would be 40% on the first $150 of his monthly wage. Thus if a man works at a wage income of $100 a month for 45 years he will have contributed $1,050 to the annuity fund and his employers an equal amount. The total sum, $2,100, even with 3% interest added, cannot provide many $40-a-month pension payments. On the other hand a man of 20 cannot expect on the average to live beyond 66 so that the Government figures on breaking even...
Mounting orders from the automobile industry have accounted for most of the blast furnaces blown in during the past few weeks, but demand from other sources is also swelling. Carnegie Steel last week received a 24,000-ton rail order, equal to nearly 15% of all the rails it rolled last year...
...petitions in favor of the so-called ''Townsend'' scheme, it merely confirms me in an opinion I have held for some time - that the great majority of the inhabitants of this country are morons. . . . In this land of liberty (?) any addlepate can vote on an equal basis with his intelligent neighbor (if any), on any and all of the complex problems put before them. The result is that candidates for office are obliged, if they hope to be elected, to appeal to the moronic riff raff with all kinds of fool schemes and promises...
Composer Friml's score has charm equal to anything he has done in the 22 years which have passed since he wrote High Jinks. "Sweet Fool" is a ballad worthy of place among modern Schmalzmusik. But the libretto with its creaky structure belongs to the bygone era of celluloid collars and beehive police helmets. In surrendering her role to Natalie Hall, Mme Jeritza escaped being a Venetian noblewoman of 1934 who thinks better of spurning a commoner when, in a flashback, she impersonates her own fisher maiden ancestor in 1770 wooing and winning the Duke of Orsano. She also...
Graham dipped into the lowest-priced range this year with a new series of sixes. Like its special six, eight and supercharged eight, the new six has a narrow hood, deep-skirted fenders, steel running board, semi-elliptical springs equal to 80% of the wheel base...