Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursers and stewards from the U.S.S. Constitution helped 983 home-coming travelers tote their baggage ashore. Perishable goods were in danger of rotting on the piers and in ships' holds, and U.S. grain exports for the Far East, South America and Europe piled up at dockside at the rate of 11 million bushels weekly...
...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 chipped in: "We are going to abolish sales tax on such essentials as clothes, furniture and many household goods." In shocked response, newspapers, Tory candidates-and voters-all over Britain began...
...leave the toughs." Philadelphia's Dr. Robert I. Wise reported a nationwide eruption of "hot" staph strains since 1950. Doctors and nurses are the greatest menace: in some areas, 67% of them are healthy carriers of hot staph, as against 30% of their patients. By contrast, the rate among people who have had what Dr. Walter called "no close contact with the health industry" is trifling...
...serve as well as a part-time employee--and is there a real need to station a person behind the coffee urn at luncheon when one-fifth or less of the students may want a hot drink? Since labor does make up such a large part of the board rate, primary economies should be made in this direction...
Responsible members of the Administration must disclose some hard facts about the necessity for yet another board rate increase, before anyone should consider paying the new rate. The Dining Hall Department has a moral obligation to seek out and publish the facts behind its recent request, an obligation in which it has failed miserably thus...