Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's recommendations, certain to be made law at Parliament's next session, had a practical side. Supporting the Indians is a heavy burden. From $5 million in 1936, the cost has risen to $22 million this year. Since the Indian population is increasing at a rate of about 1,500 a year, the oldtime policy may soon cost more than the country can afford...
...President had vetoed 1) the Reed-Bulwinkle bill, which exempts railroads from antitrust suits for rate agreements, provided the rates are approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission; 2) a bill which would remove 750,000 salesmen and "independent contractors" from social security; and 3) a Labor Department appropriation bill which contained a rider transferring the U.S. Employment Service to the Federal Security Agency. All were overridden by wide margins...
...Western powers hoped that it was "ammo" of a sort. The cases contained crisp new blue-backed currency notes (printed in the U.S.) which the Western powers started issuing last week in place of the billions of marks now clogging Western Germany's inflated, paralyzed economy. The rate of exchange would be announced later, but the Germans would probably get only one new mark for ten old ones. Anticipation of the currency reform started Germans on a frantic buying spree to get rid of their old money...
Broad as his range and virtuosity are, it seems possible that Olivier's greatest gifts are for comedy, especially for comedy which works close to the tragic. Like every first-rate comedian's, his sense of reality is strong and cool; his understanding of "the modesty of nature," and his regard for it, are exceptionally acute. Those who venerate the best in acting will easily forgive the rare excesses in this Hamlet, and will easily get over disappointments as beautiful as these; they will not soon forget the lively temperateness, the perfect commingling of blood and judgment...
...Prescribed rate of landing descent for U.S. airliners: 500 feet per minute...