Word: scrip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This promise was called "$30 Every Thursday," a pension plan whereby every idle, retired Californian of 50 or over would receive $30 a week for life in State-issued scrip, upon each $1 of which a tax stamp costing 2? (U. S. money) must be stuck every Thursday, to retire each scrip $1 at $1.04 at the end of a year, the 4? to pay administration expenses (TIME...
...obtained for petitions to put it on the November ballot and last week, day after Californians went to the primary polls, the State Supreme Court announced there was nothing wrong with the form of the petitions, on the ballot it must go. Candidate Downey, who had plumped for the scrip plan and adopted its slogans ("Life Begins at 50," "Ham & Eggs"), rolled up 486,000 votes to Mr. McAdoo...
...average about $75 per month. Of this, 15% is deducted for rent on company-owned houses, fees to company-hired physicians, contributions to company burial funds. After an additional sum has been deducted to settle his accounts at high-priced company stores, the miner gets the balance in scrip good only at those stores. If he wants cash, his scrip is discounted...
...transcontinental fare will be $149.95.* This will buy a seat in a standard DC2 or DC-3. An extra fare of $4 will buy a swivel chair in a deluxe DC-3, while $8 will buy a berth. For shorter flights the extra fares will be less. Holders of scrip tickets will still get a 15% reduction...
...they docked. How much money could be squeezed out of Germany if the rest of the bondholders got tough is problematical. Britain's simple threat of appropriating German trade balances for the benefit of its citizens holding German bonds brought quick results in the form of a 4% scrip offer, as against the 3% offered U. S. bondholders in the issue registered last week. German trade with Britain yields a favorable balance, which the Reich desperately needs, whereas its balance with the U. S. has been unfavorable to Germany, which could retaliate against bondholders who attached German balances...