Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same weekly pay was tried in the United States, and it does not increase the price of goods. It does entail a burden on the worker, but we have simultaneously endeavored to better the lot of the worker's family by setting up a workmen's fund...
Into this fund goes 1% of the worker's pay, matched by a like sum which the State forces the employer to contribute. On overtime work the percentage is quintupled. "We calculate that the yearly sum thus raised will be 200,000,000 lire ($17,000,000)," said Grand Councilman Cianetti. "This is distributed among men with families, in proportion to the number of their children. The average works out to one lira per day (8½?) per child...
...poured her husband's valuable cellar into the gutter immediately after his death) and anti- tobacconist, she caused one great sensation in 1931 when she publicly announced that her granddaughter, Mrs. Beatrice ("Trixie") Van Rensselaer Henderson Wholean was a foundling, secretly adopted to inherit a $600,000 trust fund...
...that private utilities are fairly skillful jugglers of statistics and ideas, they have much to learn from the government. To obscure the issue, and to create a fantastically low rate-base, the Norrisses and Wheelers with the able assistance of Mr. Roosevelt, have written off huge sums as "sinking-fund expenditures" for work relief, navigation, flood-control, nitrate manufacture, and similar projects. This remarkable feat in bookkeeping enables the T.V.A. fathers to call the power created, estimated as enough for several states, just "surplus." Further, the "charging off" to unproductive uses permits a charmingly low rate base for which, apparently...
Present developments along this line include: new courses in the Business School on public administration, the three year cooperative arrangement between the Government Department and the Departments of History, Economics, and Sociology, and the Law School; and the establishment of the Loewenstein Fund last year...