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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Aug. 25), but they had plenty of their own. They were making and spending money so fast that sales-tax revenues at July's end were $24 million ahead of last year. Income-tax payments, despite a 29% cut in rates (effective July 1), were expected to add up, by fiscal year's end, to a whopping $100 million over estimates. Up to mid-August, customs duties, ballooned by the tremendous surge of imports from the U.S., were $44 million greater than in mid-August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Biggest Ever | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...eight round-trips weekly, and during a recent period BOAC carried the highest number of passengers per plane between the terminal points of New York and Montreal and London. Incidentally, in addition to the five Constellations which you mentioned, BOAC will also, in the early part of next year, add six Boeing Stratocruisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...record that Francis Bacon was much of a tennis player, but most tennis players would agree with his estimate of the game. The best tennis player in the world, a 26-year-old named John Albert Kramer, should certainly not take exception to it-though he might want to add a few things. For instance, the kind of tennis he plays is about to be of some use to his country. And shortly thereafter, it might be turned to more immediate profit to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...present, Kramer is not even nibbling, and he definitely is not talking. If he can add the Davis Cup and the 1947 U.S. singles crown to the doubles championship which he and Schroeder won at Longwood last week, he can almost name his own price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Bowe hastened to add, will be denied opportunity to enter a course that will be unavailable to him at a later phase of his grind towards a lawyer's shingle. The registration procedure merely calls for postponement, and not the elimination, of the selections of the fifth term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School's Vanguard Of Registrants Starts Off Roll Toward Peak Total | 8/21/1947 | See Source »

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