Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grave was Britain's economic sickness? Did the realization that Britain must sharply reduce her Empire commitments and step down as a first-rate power also mean that Britain at home could never recover...
...Like It to Broadway critics, and only fair luck selling The Merchant of Venice. But last week when he fished up Ben Jonson's Volpone (rhymes with macaroni), a play that modern Broadway had never seen as Jonson wrote it,* the crowd- or, at any rate, the critics-made an excited grab...
Even the Irish have never made much of their own art; James Joyce once called it the cracked looking glass of a servant. The fashions of London, Rome and Paris were often reflected, secondhand and second-rate, in Irish painting. This week a Manhattan gallery exhibited the work of twelve Irish painters, who reflected not Europe but Dublin, the ragged hills of Connemara and the midlands around Tullamore...
...other things, a permanent raise in minimums from $1,775 to $2,400, in maximums from $2,975 to $4,000. The city's answer was that Buffalo is broke, and that only the state legislature-in session at Albany-may empower the city to raise its tax rate. A little unsure whether it was up to city or state to help them, the teachers walked out, and put the pressure on both...
...supplied Consolidated. Presumably, Consolidated would now buy from its new owner, Big Steel. About a month ago, Kaiser again felt the hot breath of Big Steel on his neck. Through a dicker with four western railroads, Big Steel had won a $4-40-a-ton reduction in the freight rate on steel shipped from Geneva to the coast...