Word: share
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only be escaped by a retreat along the whole Socialist front. It is simply that everybody-not just the well-to-do-is and feels overtaxed. The EGA has calculated that the taxes paid by ... 80% of the population . . . amount to 67 shillings per family per week, while their share of government welfare expenditures-food and housing subsidies, social insurance, free medical care, etc.-amount to only 57 shillings. In other words, the fact that nothing is really free is borne in on all classes of British society...
General need for office space and the amount of work a group would do in its office were the criteria for the space allocations. Many groups whose office needs are comparatively small will share offices. Five language clubs, for instance, share one office...
When she could get it, Betty's mother, Mabel Lum Thornburg, took daytime work on the assembly lines in automobile factories at 22? an hour. For a time, after she and the children had begun to share a Detroit basement flat with two other families, she worked as a "tackspitter," tacking upholstery into car seats. She would come home at night "with nails in her fingers where she'd missed." Says Betty grimly: "I made up my mind then that no one-no one-would keep us like that...
...scramble to buy TV stocks last week. What started the rush were reports by Admiral Corp. and Motorola Inc. that their first-quarter sales were double and their profits triple the rate for 1949's same period. The stock of Motorola, which reported estimated earnings of $3.50 a share for the first quarter, shot up 8 points in one day's trading to 50⅛. Admiral, with earnings of $2.08, saw its stock rise 3¼ points to 37⅞ and help carry up the whole television list. By day's end, the New York Stock Exchange...
Deerfield has had its share of injuries, too. Midfield star George Lunt has been sidelined by a leg bruise, and coach Ben Havilland has been experimenting with various midfield combinations...