Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of Halloween, a grizzled old (73) French-Canadian prospector named Francois Xavier Gallant borrowed a friend's automobile, drove to Creighton (pop. 2,000), got busy with ax and compass. As the sun went down, he walked into the recorder's office, registered eight mining claims to 320 acres of land. Part of it was dotted with Creighton houses...
Since Doherty 's death the Journal has been published by "Newspaper Analysts" Orville S. McPherson and Russell H. Miles. Despite livelier makeup and pace, more features, liquor ads (which the Star refuses) and New Deal ax-grinding, the Journal has not made the Doherty estate any money, has a circulation of only 80,000 - about a fourth that of the morning or afternoon edition of the Star...
...higher percentage of regular generals have been relieved than National Guardsmen. How the ratio will change before the job is over, not even George Marshall knows. But in the lower ranks it is certain that the ax will swing most heavily on National Guard and Reserve officers, who were picked with less care, trained less intensively than young regulars. Best bet is that around 30% of the Army's citizen-officers will be sent home, to be replaced from the bottom by R.O.T.C. graduates and new second lieutenants from the Army's officers' schools...
...ax, co-ax--Go to h--, you bums--Victory for Yale-Yeh, Victory for old Eli-To h--, you bums...
...their $1,382,100,000 contribution, corporations were nicked in two chief ways: 1) 6% was added to normal tax rates; 2) each excess-profits tax bracket was increased 10%. But it was not as simple as that. Some sections of the bill were less like a meat-ax than a complex series of revolving knives...