Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Save employers and workers $275,000,000 in 1940, $825,000,000 in three years by freezing payroll levies for old-age insurance at 1% in 1940-41-42, instead of upping the rate to 11/2% next January 1as the law now requires...
...Swedish Parliament celebrated its 504th anniversary; preparations were under way for midsummer eve on June 23, when there is no night in Sweden and the people dance around the maypoles. In England last week 500,000 people saw Blue Peter win the Derby; cars were leaving London at the rate of 48,000 an hour; railroads put on 2,500 special trains for Whitsunday; a ?5.000,000 South African loan was subscribed in 15 minutes; unemployment had decreased by 395,000 since February. In weather so exceptional the Derby was called Heatwave Derby, all young men between...
...cars; they hoped that after the strike at Briggs Manufacturing Co. last week, production would resume its higher trend; 2 ) reports that large steel orders had been placed during May's steel price flurry (TIME, May 22) and a recovery in the steel rate...
...three lucky ideas: 1) Creation of a Public Works Finance Corp. to finance self-liquidating Federal, State, municipal public works "at any rate of interest . . . necessary to get the business done." 2) To insure loans to small business, FHA style, "to put the small man who cannot finance internally on a par with large corporations." 3) To appoint a special subcommittee, reporting to Congress, on the feasibility of organizing capital credit banks to make capital available alike to government (Federal & local) and to private enterprise. "No panacea," Berle pontificated, "with these three bills we should have the elements...
Happy at having saved three lives, Dr. Macfarlane predicted that, if all women over 30 would follow the example of the 1,200 volunteers and demand complete periodic pelvic examinations, the "appalling death rate" (15,000) from cancer of the uterus would be greatly lowered...