Search Details

Word: one-year (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...College demonstrates enough interest next fall, a limited one-year plan will be adopted. This would be modified on a five-year basis if support continues. The Delhi committee would supply the Harvard group here with literature and other materials on the culture and civilization of India in exchange...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Group of Students Plans Assistance For Rural India | 5/13/1955 | See Source »

INTEREST RATES are on the way up. To help refinance $6.4 billion in Government securities coming due soon (most of it in one-year, 1⅛% certificates), the Treasury Department will pay 2% interest on a new $3.9 billion short-term issue running for 15 months. The big private finance companies (among them: General Motors Acceptance Corp., C.I.T. Financial Corp., Commercial Credit) are also boosting the rate they pay when they borrow on commercial paper, will now pay another ⅛% interest (to 1¾%) on 30-to 90-day notes, the third such jump in a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

From his position outside the arena, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, who wanted only a one-year extension of present corporate-income-tax rates and some excise taxes, fired in a few rounds. Characterizing Johnson's plan as a "political quickie gimmick," he said: "You don't help to increase the purchasing power of the 'little folks' by repealing the laws which are helping to make their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: End of a Dream | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Johnson blandly explained that the income-tax cut would not add a cent to the national deficit since his amendment also proposed to 1) continue the present excise and, corporation-tax rates for two years instead of the one-year extension requested by the Administration, and 2) take away the dividend credit granted by the 83rd Congress to stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Compromise for Sam | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...constitution rather than a Bible, and on his personal honor rather than in God's name. Eight other men, members of Uruguay's Swiss-style council of state, did likewise. Five are from Batlle Berres' Colorado Party; three chosen members will take the presidency in succeeding one-year terms after their chief has served for the first year. The other councilors, among them Herrera, are from the opposition National Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Democracy at Work | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | 281 | 282 | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | Next