Word: annual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee for Old Age Pensions (TIME, Sept. 5) despite support of the plan by politically ambitious Jimmy Roosevelt. The new law will leave pensions at the increased level (average: $70.63 a month) which McLain pushed through a year ago, but will shave $65 million off the $200 million annual cost by boosting the retirement age from 63 back to 65. It will also make relatives who can afford it responsible for the old folks once more...
...agreed that dismantling ought to stop. The French disagreed, although they were being more openminded about the subject than they had been. If the Germans would honestly abide by security controls, the French were willing to let them have an annual steel production of 11,500,000 tons. It was not clear, however, just what the French meant by "security...
...international contest at which their excellencies assisted was a sparkling new feature of Peru's annual Feria Nacional, which included such other attractions as bullfights and a country fair...
...busily restocking. After ten months of successive decline, U.S. retail inventories had jumped a tidy $500 million in September. There was still a tremendous amount of pent-up buying power. Disposable income had risen 4.8% in 1949's first half over the same period last year, to an annual rate of $194.6 billion, and personal savings had almost doubled...
...Whiffenpoofs of 1950 are great. For about 15 minutes last Friday night they proved this at the annual Harvard-Yale Glee Club Concert in New Haven. Zipping through such songs as "Toot Toot Tootsic," "Saloon," "Baby Sister Blues," and "Crusin' Around," they brought life to an otherwise ordinary concert with their relaxed, informal, and technically fine style...