Word: pay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press, in a meeting with Dean Bundy today, for some more flexible board system, perhaps a pay-by-the-item meal, an 18-meal or 14-meal per week rate, or some sign-off provisions...
...with your Taxes. In his new aggressiveness, Macmillan early in the week fired off a taunt that overnight came to dominate the political infighting. Reeling off the list of Gaitskell's promises (retirement at half pay for all, more schools, hospitals, housing), Macmillan asked: "How can you pay for all you promise?" Stung to anger, Hugh Gaitskell, onetime professional economist, retorted with yet another piece of pie-in-the-sky: "There will be no increase in the standard rate of income tax under a Labor government so long as normal peacetime conditions continue." And from London, Labor Party headquarters...
...investors. Said New York's Manufacturers Trust: "It was fantastic. Everyone in the Government bond department was too busy to even go out for lunch." To help lure in individuals, the Treasury guaranteed that subscriptions up to $25,000 would be allotted in full if the subscriber would pay in cash. Also, as part of the same financing operation, the Treasury will auction an additional $2 billion in tax-anticipation bills due next June...
...billion is needed, in spite of the prospective balance of the budget, to pay the Treasury's bills until tax collections pick up early next year. The Department also expects to raise another $2 billion or $3 billion before January, but does not know at what rate. Some moneymen think that the end of the steel strike will see a big demand and further squeeze on the money market; others argue that the impact of the post-strike demand has already been discounted. In any case the new bonds show that, given favorable interest rates, there is still plenty...
...dollars when he began trading in oil leases, was wiped out in 1921, when oil prices tumbled, made another fortune and went broke again early in the Depression, when overproduction in the East Texas fields brought posted prices down to 10? a barrel. He lived on credit, unable to pay either his office rent or his $8 monthly dues at the Fort Worth Club. In 1932, as oil prices began to rise, Sid came out of hibernation...