Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial terms, the reduced tax-bite will once again allow us amass fortunes (we assume it will be "us" rather than "those"). But the main and most beneficial aspect of the amendment is that it will give American society what it has never possessed, or at least has never had a sufficient number of--a peasantry. For if the rich don't pay graduated taxes, the masses will have to pay more, and that should not only push down the rising middle classes, but will certainly so lower the lower class that it will actually become quaint...
...Eisenhower budget's professional and political critics would hardly allow Edgar to forget what he had said. But in their attempts to read a serious family split into the affair, they forgot something themselves: Edgar and Dwight Eisenhower have always fought for the sheer joy of slugging-but when blood poisoning set in after High-Schooler Dwight fell and hurt his knee back in Abilene, Kans., it was Edgar who stayed two days and nights at his bedside and prevented a doctor from amputating...
...Northern farm will be used chiefly as a rest center for Koinonians with "battle fatigue." Said Norman Long: "There's no value in thinking what may happen. We are simply living our lives from day to day. The issues at stake are so great that we cannot allow ourselves to give...
FIRST G.M. STOCK OPTION plan will set aside 4,000,000 shares for about 250 top General Motors executives over next five years. If stockholders approve, G.M. will allow an executive to take 75% of his present bonus in cash or stock immediately, and company will put aside equal amount in common stock. Executive then could buy optioned stock, for market price at time of option, from 18 months to ten years hence...
Secretary of State Dulles' offer yesterday to allow "a strictly limited number" of American newsmen to visit Red China was described last night as "a concession to domestic pressure" by Nieman Fellow William Worthy. Worthy expressed doubt "that the Chinese would cooperate with any deal like this...