Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boosts the tax on beer, gasoline (from 1½ ? to 2? a gallon), liquor, cigarettes (to 8? a package) and autos (from 7% to 10%), sets a 10% tax on the manufacturers' price of most appliances and 8% on auto parts...
...committee truckled to the powerful farm lobby by exempting farm cooperatives, big dividend payers, from withholding taxes. Other favors for farmers: refunds from taxes on gasoline and auto parts when bought for farm equipment. The committee sent its bill to the House, which is expected to pass it this week without amendment, but the Senate may not act upon the measure until late September. Members of the potent Senate Finance Committee have already said that they will cut the income-tax increase, shorten the length of time for which increases will be retroactive, and insist that the Government trim...
...Watch is at its readable best when it describes people and places: poverty-stricken slum dwellers in a Rome suburb, a garrulous waiter, fellow passengers on an auto trip to Naples, the palace where he lived in Rome, with a staircase so spacious that G.I.s drove up & down it in their jeeps. These are bits & pieces, some of them very good, but they cannot make a book and they do not begin to make a novel. At 48, Carlo Levi is still the middling painter who wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli...
...Railroad workers 4. Auto workers...
...workers (TIME, May 28), last week punched a gaping hole in the ceiling for 1,000,000 U.S. autoworkers. It okayed a 4?-an-hour boost, for "increased productivity," in most C.I.O.-U.A.W. autoworkers' contracts. Coupled with the 3?-an-hour cost-of-living raise last month, average auto wages were now up to $1.93 an hour, 12% above WSB's January 1950 base period. WSB also ruled that the productivity increase could not be used by automakers as a wedge for higher auto prices. In Detroit, however, some automakers, e.g., Ford, Packard, were still totting...