Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dealing with the Civil Aeronautics Authority. . . . This morning . . . we saw a group of well-intentioned people staking out an exclusive claim to a so-called 'Lobby to Save Lives.' The implication that we are not interested in saving lives . . . compels me to restate in simple terms the basic features of the Reorganization Plans...
From Chicago to Los Angeles and Fort Worth to Seattle, the new service's rates are the same: a basic 8?-a-mile with a 10-mile-per-hour minimum, a sliding scale for rising mileage with an ultimate 6½?-a-mile for a minimum 1,000 miles a week, gas, oil, maintenance, and insurance included. Cars: five-passenger Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Studebaker and Hudson sedans. Telegrams to reserve cars are free, and arrangements can be made to charge automobile rentals against credit cards...
...feels that groups should be more extensively tried out by the tutorial boards of the various departments, and that their possibilities and limitations for the purposes of each department should be more clearly determined. Clearly, however, they are not an adequate substitute for individual instruction, which must remain the basic tutorial method...
...brackets British income and supertax payers are being assessed 85% -basic British income tax rate is 37½%. The Chancellor last week invaded lower brackets, making supertax begin at incomes of $5,250 instead of $7,000, and again treating the British white-collar class rough. A married but childless Briton making $1,050 whose income tax was $17.50 the year before last and $24.50 last year will...
...basic fact about aircraft manufacture is that no customer ever gets an up-to-date airplane. By the time the first ships of any order are delivered, a better plane is under test, a still better one is taking shape on the drawing boards. But to foreign purchasers of U. S.-made military planes this principle of initial obsolescence has long been complicated by a Federal regulation that made their buys relatively more out-of-date than a motorcar with a floorboard gearshift is in 1940. The rule: no aircraft type could be sold for export until it had been...