Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...federal surplus of some $635,000,000 (TIME, July 11), those high in the ranks of the Democratic and Republican parties have quarreled over the manner in which the melon should be cut. All agree that the record surplus will result in tax reduction, but differences arise over the amount of the tax cut and over the glory of presenting it to the U. S. nation. Considering the fact that a Republican Administration governs the country, it might appear that the Republicans would have no difficulty in framing a taxation program bearing the G. O. P. stamp and in going...
...would agree on a reduction of corporation taxes (from 13½% to possibly as low as 10%); that there might be a reduction of surtaxes on incomes of less than $500,000; that the automobile and amusement taxes would be lowered. The repeal of the estate tax and the amount of reductions on personal incomes were two questions over which pronounced argument was expected to develop...
...this Leonard Wood said in Manhattan last week: "It has been proved that cures are possible at nearly any stage of the disease, and more likely if treatment is started quickly. I do not think $2,000,000 is too large an amount to be raised by this drive when you consider that lepers are the most wretched of human beings." Advocating this was one of his main reasons for his present visit to the U. S. He plans to resume his duties as Governor General of the Philippines in September...
...small puff into four equal parts, placed one part in a known amount of sterile water and let it remain for a short time to dislodge the bacteria. Then varying amounts of the water were carefully transferred to sterile glass plates with covers-petri dishes, we call them in the laboratory-and a proper amount of culture media, or food supply for bacteria, added...
...University of Helsingfors, Finland, inquisitive physiologists calculated the amount of energy, as measured by calories (heat units), necessary for humans to do various things. Their findings...