Word: pay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feature of the National Health Service Act is that all foreigners, whether they pay British taxes or not, are entitled to free treatment under the National Health Service Act. Last spring a doctor in Calais complained that his French patients were crossing the Channel to get free British treatment; some were reported to have resold their free dentures and spectacles on the Continent...
...Lohman considered selling out and going back to Texas. But nothing came of the idea. Last week, caudillo-like, he was holding court at Red Wells-now promising a young Indian more corn for his squaw, now buying 30 cattle from a small rancher so that the man could pay for his wedding. "I think my place is right here in the Chaco," he said. "That's where I belong...
...school districts (many with less than 350 pupils) to an economical 428, abolished the 18-mill maximum on property taxes which had hamstrung most efforts to increase school allotments. But something had to be done to convince Arkansans that they should up their local school taxes, thus pay for the improvements which would push Arkansas up the education ladder...
...showplace estate of John (Driv-Ur-Self) Hertz in the rolling green hills of Illinois' Fox River Valley. He turned it into a showplace for farmers, now spends most of his time there and on his other farms nearby. No money-losing gentleman farmer, he makes everything pay its own way. He once tried sheep raising. Totting up the books one night, he discovered that he was losing money at it; next day he ordered the sheep sold...
...prizes (roundtrip plane rides to the North Pole and Venezuela) were nontransferable and Noone was afraid that if he should go ("I'd rather go to Richmond on a bus"), he would have to pay income tax on the cash value of the journeys. Deciding against $1,000 in knitwear, Noone asked the manufacturer for a cash settlement. He was offered...