Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Trust Company announced that it had dropped even the special minimum loan rate of 50 cents, which it had granted previously to veterans certified by the AVC. There will now be no charge by the bank for the emergency ten-day loan...
Since 1943 the three have formed a monetary union, which fixes the exchange rate of each currency with the other two. Now they are ready to adopt a joint customs schedule for all foreign goods shipped into the Lowlands, hope within a year to agree on identical customs duties for goods moving among themselves. The five-year goal: full economic union, with no internal customs barriers, with identical taxes, labor laws, social legislation. If economic union works, political union would be much less difficult. Belgians and Dutch think that later France may join them, that Scandinavian countries may cooperate closely...
Robin Hood. Dalton gave the lowest wage group the solace of a cut in income taxes which brought them back to about the 1940 level. The basic rate of nine shillings to the pound (45%) remained. But by lifting the basic exemptions and increasing allowances for dependents, the budget took income tax entirely off about 750,000 low-income Britons. Under the new schedule, a British couple with two children will pay no tax unless they earn more than $28 a week, and they would not pay the 45% rate unless they earned more than $40 a week. The change...
...patients often have no choice of a physician. Medical service does not cover childbearing or venereal disease. Three-fourths of the hospitals available to miners are substandard in some way; hospital insurance plans drastically limit benefits (e.g., they do not cover hospitalization for a contagious disease). Despite the high rate of mine accidents, only 28% of the mines have adequate first-aid facilities...
Armed with the simplest of plots and three extremely capable actors, Zoltan Korda has transformed Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" into a first-rate motion picture. While the sparsely-worded, continually charged atmosphere of the original story has been preserved, the script-writers have only had to distort the plot a little to squeeze ninety minutes of movie out of thirty pages of tightly-written dialogue. The only place they slipped up was at the end, where long, out-of character explanations take the edge off Hemingway's subtlety...