Word: bails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soapy Storm. Last February, Soapy Williams started a hold-down on nonessential state expenditures, asked for and got a bail-out of $30 million in taxes paid three months in advance by his old whipping boys, the corporations. In the state legislature. Democrats and Republicans began talking about "the need for compromise.'' But as the weeks went by, 1) the Republicans tried to get a 1% increase in sales taxes, and the Democrats balked; 2) the Democrats tried to hike the debt limit to $50 million, and the Republicans balked. Last week, even though the evenly divided house...
TOKYO, April 21--Red China disclosed today its peasant communes are in trouble and will need both a subsidy and tax relief to bail them...
Today "Duke" Vautier will be released on bail. He will face a hearing in Suffolk County Superior Court. Whatever happens he will hardly get anywhere in his constitutional struggle. And after not very long, the public will cease to be amused, and the headlines of the Globe, the Herald, and the Traveler will occupy themselves with something else...
Fabiani still occasionally plays his Stradivarius, moves with ease through his two worlds. On the night of the Tebaldi recital, after presenting the singer with masses of long-stemmed roses, he drove to a local precinct to bail out two fans of Dropkick Rocca who had been jailed for assaulting the referee...
...would end its support if he did not close government-subsidized tin-mine commissaries where the coddled, politically powerful miners were buying meat, rice and other staples at less than cost-a typical rat hole for foreign funds. A few weeks ago the U.S., which sends Bolivia a bail-out allowance of $500,000 every fortnight, backed up the I.M.F. by demanding an end to commissary subsidies. Thus pressured, Siles announced that the commissaries had to go. The day the rioting ended, Bolivia's tin miners went on strike to protest Siles' action...