Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Permit the States to reduce their unemployment insurance contributions, if their reserve funds are at a safe ratio to their minimum annual outlays. In the 39 States whose reserves are in a condition permitting reductions, employers stand to save $200,000,000 to $250,000,000 in 1940. > Limit the annual income taxable for unemployment compensation to $3,000, which is now the maximum taxable for old-age insurance. Estimated annual saving to employers...
...financing the rest of the war. While Chinese diplomats profess optimism over the military situation, no one was surprised when they warned Occidental powers sympathetic to China that the question of whether Japan wins or loses now depends largely on how firmly the French, British and U. S. stand on their rights in the international zones, give active support to China...
...French Concession special Chinese police, French Ahnamese soldiers even French sailors from warships in the Whangpoo River were mustered out. In the International Settlement the 4th U. S. Marines and bluejackets from the U. S. cruiser Augusta were under stand-by orders. The British ordered out their entire defense forces, landing both soldiers and sailors from warships. The Shanghai Volunteer Corps and the International Settlement Police were called out to the last man. To give the Japanese no excuse for penetrating the area, Settlement patrols also began a systematic search for terrorists arrested 150 Chinese, found no ammunition. Two Chinese...
...Shanghai open money market soon reacted to the Occident's firm stand at Shanghai and Amoy. In terms of U S dollars, the Japanese yen fell below the value of the Chinese dollar, the yen falling under 16? while the Chinese dollar held firm at 16.11?. For the Japanese, who have been trying to persuade the Chinese that their money was just as good as Chiang Kai-shek's and who have made valiant efforts to keep Japanese-sponsored currency at par with the British and U S-supported Chinese dollar, this was as serious...
...Having collected many facts, it was ready to start doing something about them. First step was to appoint a new director† who has his own youth story. Floyd Wesley Reeves, born on a South Dakota ranch staked out by his father not far from Custer's last stand, spent his boyhood tending cattle instead of going to school. He went through Robinson's Complete Arithmetic by himself, read Tennyson. Wordsworth, Shakespeare and Horatio Alger, began to teach in a country school at 17. Three years later he went to high school, finished it in a year, then...