Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three women executives of the store and Morgan Partner William Ewing) that Lord & Taylor had set aside $2,000,000 during the last decade in case the store could not renew its 21-year Fifth Avenue lease. He was happy to announce that the lease had been renewed. The fund to cover the cost of moving was no longer needed. Therefore he proposed that Lord & Taylor pay an extra special dividend of $1,500,000 ($50 per share). The directors scratched their chins, voted the $50 extra, a $2.50 quarterly, a $5 Christmas special, and adjourned...
...Pays? Premiums to the British Unemployment Fund are divided in three, one-third deducted from wages, one-third paid by employers, one-third donated by the State. Last week President Roosevelt declared for insurance financed by "contributions, not taxes." That ruled the Federal Government out as a fiscal partner, for its contributions would come from taxes. But a big question was still to be settled: Should employes as well as employers contribute to insurance funds? Labor said "No!" In Wisconsin the burden is being borne entirely by employers. The Ohio plan would have employers contribute 2% of payrolls, would have...
...bring about unemployment insurance. One school advocated Federal grants to States to encourage them to set up insurance plans. Another advocated the scheme proposed in the Wagner-Lewis bill last winter: Let the Federal Government tax payrolls and remit the tax to employers who contribute to State unemployment insurance funds. When the President declared against financing the program by taxes he virtually ruled out the first alternative. Last week his advisers considered recommending a 2% to 5% payroll tax to be paid by all employers of ten or more workers (farm hands, domestic servants, nurses and a few other groups...
...Were informed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain that the National Government will set up a "Destitute Areas Fund" of ?2,000,000 ($10,000,000) to be used in rehabilitating the Depression-blasted regions of South Wales, Northern England and the Scottish Clydebank. "While most parts of the country now have a feeling of hope and confidence," said Chancellor Chamberlain, ''there remains in the depressed areas an atmosphere of stagnation and listlessness which arises from a chronic condition of poverty and privation...
Already aware of Amundsen's prior success, Britain was stunned by the tragic news. A national memorial service was held. Scott had written, "For God's sake, take care of our people." The Lord Mayor of London started a fund for the dead men's' families. Before long ?90,000 had poured in. It was decided that the surplus should be used not only for a Scott monument but for the advancement of polar research. Professor Frank Debenham, Cambridge University geographer who had traveled with Scott, had an idea that became a vision...