Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decide to send TIME to people like these, or to any others on your Christmas list, a postage paid air mail order card showing our special Christmas rate is bound into this issue. Please try to airmail it back to me today...
...pilot, the increased rate of fire is of crucial importance. During the war, German pilots found that the very speed of their jet planes in effect reduced their firepower, since there was much less time to pour bursts into an enemy plane. This partly offset the jet's advantage over conventional fighters...
...more on it." "How much do you owe?" asked Cripps. "?400." "Well, suppose I gave you ?500?" Old Joe jumped at the chance, but his face fell when he heard Cripps's conditions. For Cripps added that he would pay Joe the extra ?100 at the rate of ?1 a week. " 'E knew," explained a villager, "Old Joe would only blue the lot if 'e 'ad it all at once-so 'e rations 'im. Well, Old Joe 'adn't got no choice really. But although Sir Stafford cleared 'is debts...
...good chance of meeting Cripps's export target of 164% of prewar levels by the end of 1948. But even if all goes according to Cripps's plan, at the end of 1948 Britain's deficit in trade with the U.S. will still be at the rate of $1 billion per year. With characteristic realism, Cripps did not count on further U.S. aid while constructing his plans for Britain's economy. But he knew that only U.S. help could build up Europe's production. The Marshall Plan discussions, he said, "are the most momentous...
Three immediate activities were on the agenda for the Council investigation. One was a survey of wages paid to dining hall workers, their relations to those offered by local competitors in the labor mart, and the rate of turnover of labor in College cafeterias...