Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 20 minutes, when most preachers would have ceased, Preacher Whitelock was merely warming up to his subject, "Signs of the Times." When an hour had passed, Mr. Whitelock had no more than established his thesis: that Holy Writ contains prophecies of modern social, moral, financial, political, ethical and economic conditions. When two hours had passed, his patient congregation was still listening to quotations dealing with such subjects as heavy motor traffic (They shall justle one against another in the broad ways...
...Social Security was one of N.R.D.G.A.'s prime legislative purposes long before that subject took form on the Congressional calendar. Social Security is, in effect, insurance on buying power. Retailers are close to the public, so self-interest dictates that retailing policy follow elections...
...show with what varying impact social security taxes will fall upon employers, the Manhattan brokerage house of Weingarten & Co. last week issued a table of the ratio of labor costs to total business in a score of industries. Labor costs mean wages, and wages are what employers will pay taxes on-in 1937, 2% for unemployment insurance, i% for old age insurance. Averaging for the last 20 years...
Thus in 1937, Social Security will cost sugar refiners, for example, about .1% of volume, automobile manufacturers .3%, steel companies...
...Railroads are exempt from Social Security taxation because of their own pension plan, which is now in the courts...