Word: pay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signed the Housing bill, the only major piece of domestic Fair Deal legislation to pass Congress so far. Result: Uncle Sam will soon help pay the rent of one million U.S. families every month...
...made $258 an hour. General Motors will give him $25,000 a year when he is too old to work but too young to die ... If you make $1.65 an hour they say you don't need it... We say to American industry, if you can afford to pay pensions to people who don't need them, then by the eternal gods you are going to pay them to people who do need them-the guys in the shop...
...school's airy halls, white tiled laboratories and neatly planted fields, the faculty of 35, some U.S.-trained, conduct 64 courses covering everything from general farming to veterinary medicine and postgraduate research in genetics. Regular students, currently numbering 277 (including six well-chaperoned girls), pay only 220 cruzeiros ($12.32) a year for tuition, twelve cruzeiros (65?) a day for food. The ministry of agriculture makes up the deficit ($356,840 last year...
...first act was to pick Richard Boutelle, the plant boss whom Ward had ordered out of the plant a week ago for supporting Fairchild, as the new president of the company. Fairchild would hold no office other than director. But this time he thought the president would pay some attention to his ideas...
...retailer made the mistake of letting the apparel trade's Daily News Record in on the secret. News services spotted the trade-paper item and spread the good news to bargain-hungry U.S. consumers. Result: Goodall's retailers could no longer find anyone foolish enough to pay $27.50 for a Palm Beach, had to put the new low price into effect right away at little more than they paid for them...