Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a strictly financial point of view, most students already in business objected to paying ten per cent of their profits to the agency. It was a difficult thing for many to see why the rate was fair...
...organizational meeting of the HSA last Fall, called to explain the purposes of the agency to the students, the ten per cent rate was called "a contribution toward the overhead." It was explained as a necessity for covering the operating costs of existing agencies and the expense of setting up additional ones...
Those who referred to the rate at all, did so in somewhat glowing and Utopian terms. Contributions were expected for a better future. John Grogan, one student, recalled the attitude as, "Someday the money will benefit someone...
...cent was hit on as a possible rate," Monro points out. "I don't doubt that it will change from year to year, and ought to change." Whatever changes are made, either for retaining a higher or lower standard rate, or for introducing a more flexible rate, should take into consideration the fact that some agencies have no use for the facilities offered, and therefore receive no benefits from their assessment...
...Secretary commented that the company could not expect the carpenters to work for less than the going wage rate. He claimed Fuller and several other large construction companies are attempting to take advantage of "general conditions in the economy...