Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Soprano Pons got $445 a week when she started at the Met. Now she earns $1,000 a night, which only Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior equal. Concerts pay Lily Pons $4,000 apiece. This is success, and Soprano Pons enjoys the symbols of it: dizzy hats, spectacular gowns, never the same twice in succession. Soprano Pons likes chunky aquamarines, emeralds, diamonds. Once in San Francisco, feeling short of jewels, she borrowed $150,000 worth...
...Every child, regardless of race or class, should have equal opportunities for education suitable to his or her peculiar capacities...
...year's end the industry had expanded its floor space 30%. But its backlog was growing faster, was equal to about a year of capacity operation. On Dec. 4 a large new list of machine tools was subjected to export priority control. Bill Knudsen scolded the industry for not doing more subcontracting. Meanwhile, investors showed less interest in machine-tool stocks than they might have if their low capitalization had not marked them for plucking by the excess-profits...
...chief provisions of the property-damage bill on which the House last week set to work: 1) coverage will be retroactive to the date Britain declared war on Germany, Sept. 3, 1939; 2) owners of dwellings will pay compulsory insurance premiums equal to 10% of the assessed rental* value of the property; 3) business assets, plant and machinery will bear a compulsory premium of 1½% of their value; 4) churches and chapels will be insured free, the Treasury paying all premiums. In addition, the War Damage Bill provides that any Briton may voluntarily insure under the scheme one motorcar...
...George B. Malott, president of an Indianapolis machine works. The bid: $10. promptly rejected. Malott, who makes a hobby of bidding at tax sales ("to help out local units of government, and, naturally, to make, a little change for myself"), had not known that Colorado law demanded a bid equal at least to the amount of delinquent taxes...