"Rate of payment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The commuted rate of payment can be accepted from new subscribers during a quarter for any unexpired period of the quarter not less ...
— Canadian Postal Guide • Various
... India for a percentage or profit not greatly exceeding the ordinary profits of commerce. But the Civil Service, because it is bound up with those who were raised by it and who dispense the patronage of India, receive a rate of payment which would be incredible if we did not know it to be true, and which, knowing it to be true, we must admit to be monstrous. The East India Government scatters salaries about at Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Agra, Lahore, and half a dozen other cities, which ...
— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright
... expression, the Minimum Wage. The cardinal idea of this group of expedients is this, that it is unjust and cruel in the present and detrimental to the future of the world to let any one be fully employed at a rate of payment at which a wholesome, healthy, and, by the standards of comfort at the time, a reasonable happy life is impossible. It is better in the long run that people whose character and capacity will not render it worth while ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells |
