Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gold had long belonged to Iran-it was the agreed Russian payment for Iranian services during World War II, when the Red army occupied the northern half of the country and the British the 29 southern. The British paid for what they used or took; the Russians had not. Russia's belated paying-up is presumably intended to lure Iran away from the northern-tier alliance of Turkey, Iraq and Pakistan. But most Iranians seemed to regard the transaction as merely getting back what belonged to them all along...
...Easy Payment Plan. The Ford offer contained no G.A.W. Nevertheless, it was what Bugas called "as challenging and comprehensive a single package offer as ever made in our industry." Estimated cost: $150 million yearly (37? more an hour for the 138,000 workers), or $750 million for the five-year pact that Bugas wanted It provided for direct raises of 5? to 10? hourly for some skilled workers, an increase in pensions from $161 to $188 (including social security) for 40-year employees, a seventh holiday, an increase in vacations, from two weeks to 2½ weeks for workers with...
...morning they lugged them to school to be weighed. For every 5.5 Ibs., a student would get one point, and one student earned as many as 250 points in the course of six months. Finally, the students had enough in the kitty (11,000 DM) to make a down payment on a new playground...
April term bills must be paid by closing time at the Harvard Trust today under penalty of fine. Students can no longer send their checks by mail, as the bank dates payment from the time it receives the bill. Fines for late payment are $10 for the first week and $20 thereafter...
...infant hydroelectric power network. Yet for all these early achievements, he did not become Prime Minister until two years ago, when he was 56. In his first three months in office, Kotelawala proved the quality of his antiCommunism. He 1) ordered the Bank of Ceylon to stop payment on funds for Communists coming in from Russia, 2) drafted stiff new penalties, with 14 years imprisonment for political subverters, 3) turned down a request from Red China for a good-will mission to Ceylon, saying: "We sell you rubber, you sell us rice. Ceylon has no other friendship or dealing with...