Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this: if your enemy is in danger of running short of a basic raw material that he needs in the business of destroying your troops, sell him some of your own surplus stocks...
...Opposition to penalizing taxes as a dangerous and unwarranted infringement of "individual rights." 6) Confining codes to basic interstate businesses and fuller use of trade associations in code administration...
...anything but success to the publicans whose duty it is to see that no liquor taxes go uncollected, the program of the A.T.U. smacks of nothing so much as simple faith in Pussyfoot Johnson's lamented Prohibition system: the use of crude strong-arm tactics as the remedy for basic ills. Bootlegging is admittedly profitable because liquor is scarce and taxes thereon out of all proportion to the value of the commodity. Yet not only does the A.T.U. plan to keep taxes at existing skyscraper levels, but by wiping out illegitimate distilleries, it will also reduce by half the amount...
Thus did Variety, periodical of the show business, last week headline a new collection of basic statistics: In eleven months Franklin D. Roosevelt saw 83 feature cinemas, 73 "short subjects" and 500 reels of news. The total (1,327) was four times as many as seen by Herbert Hoover, five times as many as by Calvin Coolidge. 18% more than the estimated average mean consumption of "rabid type" cinemaddicts in a similar period. Two pictures President Roosevelt had exhibited twice at the White House: The Fighting President, a compilation of newsreel shots of himself, and Gabriel Over The White House...
...Britain's basic income tax rate was reduced 6d in the ?, or 10%, leaving it still the highest in the world...