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Word: schemed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tower cost $600,000, but, said Crowe, "it was a half-million dollars cheaper than any scheme anybody else thought of." Shasta also used the world's longest conveyor belt (ten and a half miles) to carry gravel and sand to the damsite. The two bold innovations have drawn international engineering attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: By a Damsite | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...collect $100,000,000 annually in fees from insurance companies? In his lone dissent, Justice Stone gave a gloomy answer: Said he: "The practical effect ... is to withdraw from the states, in large measure, the regulation of insurance and to confer it on the national government-which has ... no scheme of regulation." This will loose "a flood of litigation and legislation, state and national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States Lose | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...Plan. This vast scheme is the brainchild of Bombay multimillionaire J.R.D. Tata (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942) and seven fellow industrialists and associates. Their goal: double India's per capita income, triple her national income. They want Indian industry to quintuple its output, Indian farms to double their produce. Improved housing, education, transportation, communication, health and sanitation figure in the scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Blueprint for Power | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Headache to Come? Wall Streeters viewed Sinco's latest fast financial footwork as a slick scheme to get a big raise in salary, while avoiding the enormous top-bracket taxes. By the stock deal he can increase his long-term capital gains, which are taxable at only 25%. Right off, he will net a profit of more than $30,000 in dividends (at the present rate), above the 3% interest he will pay the corporation on the unbought amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: A Raise for Harry? | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Free for All. In his new job, Mr. Elliott got off to a good start. He buttered up labor by arranging to consult with it-along with industry. He pleased factory owners by denouncing any scheme to protect competitive positions, i.e., prevent one plant from resuming civilian manufacture because a competitor was still doing war work. Small factories, which got a jackal's share of war contracts, are apparently to have the lion's share of the job of supplying U.S. civilians until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN SUPPLY: New Boss, More Goods | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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