Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealth taken from its resources. He asked Alaskans to set up a general territorial property tax, corporate net income tax, a personal income tax which would tap the salaries of 12,000 migrant fish and cannery workers and thousands of other laborers who took their salaries to Seattle each autumn. He deplored the fact that Alaskans could not vote for a U.S. President, could not send Senators and a Congressman to Washington to fight their battles. He argued for statehood-and the abolition...
...Manhattan, some 650 of the nation's top shoe manufacturers got together for the biggest National Shoe Fair ever held. They had come to show their wares and take orders for autumn delivery. But orders were so scarce that many an exhibitor packed his samples and disgustedly went home a day before the fair was officially ended...
...high prices have cut shoe sales way down, retailers had simply refused to buy at present prices. But few manufacturers talked reductions. So only 15% to 25% of the shoes that stores will need this autumn were ordered...
...year last Saturday afternoon amid the puddles and mud of the current rainy season. Full-scale games on Wednesday and Saturday climaxed a month of maneuvering, scrimmaging, and learning plays; and head coach and strategist Richard Cresson Harlow has nothing to do now but dream up ideas for next autumn's affairs...
While he was at it, Stassen had asked Stalin about censorship. "It will be difficult in our country to dispense with censorship," his host told him. "Molotov tried to do it several times. ... In the autumn of 1945 censorship was repealed. I was on leave and they started to write stones that Molotov forced me to go on leave and then wrote stories that I should return and fire him. These stories depicted the Soviet Government as a sort of zoological garden. Of course, our people got angry and they had to resume censorship...