Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What does such security cost? When wartime coalition governments adopted the womb-to-tomb plan fathered by Sir William (now Lord) Beveridge, it was estimated that NHS might cost only $500 million a year. Workmen's payroll taxes, to be applied to NHS costs, were set at 9? a week, to yield an estimated 10% of total costs, with no charges for prescriptions, eyeglasses or dentistry. The deficit would come from the Treasury's general tax funds...
...spokesman said the derailment occured when the train went through a red light, setting off an automatic stopper which jolted the front car from the tracks. Workmen replaced the car on the tracks by mid-afternoon...
...years ago when Toots closed down his "joint" on 51st Street to make way for an office building. Toots got $1,500,000 for his lease, took off for Europe, then returned to New York to eat and drink in other places while he waited fitfully for workmen to build a new restaurant a block north...
...date is so encouraging that final-phase preparations are under way for the moment when it will become an operational part of the U.S. arsenal. Last week airmen and officers at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base were being trained to fire Minutemen. Slogging through knee-deep snow, workmen in Montana were well along on the project of digging 150 silo missile sites that will be scattered like giant gopher holes across 20,000 sq. mi. By late next fall, a full year ahead of the original schedule, the first 50 Minutemen will go operational in Montana...
...Paradox. Is this the true picture of China today? Not according to Communist films and propaganda. They show happy, husky children gamboling in village nurseries, smiling Kazakh herdsmen shearing fat sheep on the Altinshoki steppes, clear-eyed workmen scrambling among the wooden scaffolding of a thousand construction sites. Important guests are dazzled by the enormous parades sweeping into Peking's Tien An Men square with a swirling of scarlet flags, the cheerful explosion of strings of firecrackers whirled on poles, the rhythmic thunder of drums and cymbals. Healthy, pig-tailed girls dance by in a flutter of pastel scarves...