Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premiums are raised through a 6% payroll tax, shared equally by employees and employers. Austria, since 1888, has copied the German pattern. More than 6,500,000, or 90% of the population, are now health-insured. White-collar workers contribute 4.2%, and manual laborers 5 to 6.5% of their wages. Administration is in the hands of semiprivate companies supervised by the government. Sweden, since 1891, has promoted voluntary sickness and accident insurance. More than half the population, or 4,700,000, are covered. They pay varying premiums to government-approved societies. The government pays 55% of the societies' outlay...
...proportion of fledgling diplomats then carried the mark of Eton, Harrow or Rugby and the casual polish of Oxford or Cambridge. Last week, however, the word got out that the Foreign Office had sent to Britain's embassy freshmen throughout the world 300 copies (marked "confidential") of a manual of polite procedure.* The elegant vice marshal of the diplomatic corps in London, Marcus Cheke (rhymes with peak), 43, with 14 years of embassy life in Brussels and Lisbon, had drawn up a deportment primer for the 200 raw recruits taken in by the Foreign Service over the past three...
BUICK is banking heavily on its "revolutionary" Dynaflow automatic transmission, which has eliminated the manual shift for normal driving. This year Dynaflow is standard on Buick's big 155-h.p. Roadmaster, extra ($200) on the 120-h.p. Super. Buick's circular "venti-ports" on its front fenders, partly a styling fillip and partly for engine cooling, have already earned the Super the nickname the "three-holer" and the Roadmaster the "four-holer...
...headroom, seat width and wheel-bases, while lowering the roofs, cutting overall width and bumper-to-bumper length. Compared with most postwar cars, body lines were conservative. There were two brand-new models: Plymouth's Suburban, a metal station wagon that sleeps two, and a Dodge roadster with manual top and old-fashioned detachable plastic side curtains. With no frills or extras, it would be the cheapest Dodge. Chrysler had simplified its automatic fluid drive transmission, dubbed it Gyromatic, and made it regular equipment on DeSoto and Chrysler, optional on Dodge...
...Prosperous New Year-like hell! Instructions in the Russian army manual are not to mix with us except when essential to fulfill their missions. These days we aren't trying to help the Russians fulfill their missions." Howley promptly ordered all fraternizing with Russians in Berlin to stop, forthwith. Cried he: "None of my men are going to play footsie-wootsie with the Russians...