Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board estimated that these assessments would cost the steel industry an average of 2½% of its total operating costs, and that the industry could afford that. For workers, the pension plan (supplemented by federal social security) would provide an income of around $100 a month after...
...carefully discussed the beauties of the Brannan Plan (high prices for farmers, low prices for workers, the bill to be footed by taxes). Republicans, who had all but forgotten how good the Truman act was, suddenly began clearing their throats, eyeing the future nervously and taking practice jogs to loosen their political muscles...
...What is President Wriston trying to do?" cried one Brown University alumnus. "Go back to the Middle Ages?" What had excited the alumnus was the plan for a new two-block, $10 million quadrangle, announced last week by Henry M. Wriston, as part of a long-term project to centralize student housing...
...able to record sound as he takes the pictures. The sound can be dubbed into new & old films alike, can be erased and rerecorded in case of mistakes. Armour said that Eastman Kodak Co., Revere Camera Co., Ampro Corp., and Bell & Howell Co all plan to have the new films and adapters ready by next spring. The price of film is estimated at about 50? more than fo soundless rolls. Price of the sound adapter: about...
...biggest obstacle to this sensible plan was home-town pride. Detroit refused to join, and Cincinnati, New Orleans and Pittsburgh have not yet decided whether to come in. But brokers in the other cities liked the idea. Instead of trading in only 14 stocks-as on the Minneapolis Exchange-the consolidated bourse would give Minneapolis floor traders 500 to deal in. They also liked keeping the whole commission for an out-of-town trade, instead of splitting it with a "correspondent" on another exchange. Businessmen also took to the idea of getting a wider market for their companies' shares...