Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollars to get one started, two or three dollars a year dues, and they have the right to assess you any time they want. You're no better off than you were before. A union is all right. It keeps men together. If it weren't for union the workers would get shoved to the wall, but the trouble is once they taste success they get crooked. They're all the same...
Though the typhoon had spent itself after six hours there was left behind a trail of fires and cholera. At week's end, British officials were still trying to assess casualties and damages, despondently gave out that at least 600 lives had been lost, that the typhoon had cost about 1,000,000 Hong Kong dollars...
...kept alive through the long valley of the shadow of industrial death from 1929 to 1935. ... In 1936 for the first time it made money—enough money to pay off its debts. Can it do so? On its life it cannot. If it did the new law would assess on it a confiscatory tax almost as large as its debt, and that would bankrupt it—prosperous though...
...committee was named to investigate and assess the value of such property as was damaged. Several men were seen carefully inspecting the lamp posts to see if any paint had been scratched off. They finally gave up and searched for damage to the grass on Cambridge Common from foot prints. The only prints that were heavy enough to be identified were those of horses and City police officers...
When John Llewellyn Lewis wants $1,000,000, all he has to do is assess his 500,000 United Mine Workers $1 each per month for two months. Last week, to build a war chest which would prime the No. 1 U. S. union for any emergency, he announced such assessments. The emergency might be a nation-wide bituminous coal strike, operators having warned last week that they would up the work week from 35 to 40 hours when the current contract expires March 31. Or it might be a steel strike. Some 250 steel company-union leaders rallied...