Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simon's Tax was announced to run retroactively from April 1, 1937 for five years. After taking $10,000 as its profit base, it provides generous exemptions in the brackets up to $60,000. Taxpayers with incomes up to that figure can deduct, in addition to their initial $10,000 exemption, one-fifth of the difference between their profits for the year...
When Russia established a base at the North Pole last month (TIME, May 31 & June 14), many were skeptical about the Soviet's announced intention of inaugurating a Moscow-San Francisco airline. Last week skeptics were confounded when a Russian plane nonchalantly flew non-stop from Moscow to the U. S. via the North Pole...
Like a gnat buzzing over a man's bald head, the ANT-25 droned along at a bare 100 m. p. h. with its 2,000-gal. load of gas, passed 20 mi. away from the North Pole base. When their radio cut out under polar magnetic influence, Navigator Beliakoff used the sun compass invented by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It got so cold the drinking water froze, and the men would have too, but for their silk undergarments, leather breeches and turtlenecked sweaters. Only Baidukoff took a nap. Chkaloff stayed at the controls steadily, nursed his ship down...
...News has constituted himself the leader of the Guild's loyal opposition ever since the union was founded. His faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening the union's membership base. On the grounds that coupling the two issues was like "hitching up a dead horse and a live one," "Bob" Buck's insurgents called for a unionwide referendum on admitting non-editorial people to the Guild. To that President Broun evoked a simile of his own. He said that...
What McCreery's is doing is currently being done in one form or another by many & many a U. S. retailer-broadening and easing the base of installment selling. McCreery's demands regular payments on its accounts, usually in ten weekly installments. Another version is the "Letter of Credit," developed by Philadelphia's Lit Brothers and now widely emulated. The letter of credit, issued by the store's credit department, is given to the sales clerk, who notes on the letter the amount of each purchase, the customer being able to buy up to the limit...