Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME reader who picks up the gauntlet flung by Challenger Webb bear well in mind these basic facts: ¶The $1,888,000,000 tax revenue of the U. S. during the fiscal year 1932 was derived 60% from the income tax. Of the personal income tax (1930). 18 1/3 % was paid by 0.4% of those filing returns. ¶The capital sum borrowed by the Allies from the U. S. totaled approximately $10,000,000,000. the greater part of which was to be repaid at 4¼%. Since the term of repayment was always envisaged as extremely long...
Agriculture: "We advocate . . . effective control of crop surpluses so that our farmers may have the full benefit of the domestic market . . . enactment of every constitutional measure that will aid the farmer to receive for basic farm commodities prices in excess of cost of production." Will Platformer Palmer define "effective control"? Will he specify "every constitutional measure...
...likely that either Washington's or Massillon's victims had ptomaine poisoning. Ptomaines (from ptoma, a corpse) are basic chemical substances derived from the decay of animal or vegetable proteins. They appear in food substances only in the later stages of putrefaction. True ptomaine poisoning is almost unknown. The use of the term is a survival of the period when physicians believed that bacteria produced their injurious effects by means of basic alkaloid-like products. Now it is known that the bacteria themselves cause the trouble...
...paralytic stroke. A Vermonter and Yaleman, consulting engineer at various times for Australia, Russia, Belgium, he was moved to look for a cheaper fuel when his son Lindon Jr. went down on the Lusitania in 1915. His patents, 20 in the U. S., 15 in Canada, including the basic Plauson-Schroeder patent, now belong to another son, Lindell Theodore Bates, Manhattan lawyer. The foreign patents have lapsed...
...laboring population of the Soviet Union, the workers and the toiling peasants, who represent not less than 90% of the people, they are on the side of the Soviet power and the overwhelming majority of them actively support it. And they support the Soviet power because it serves the basic interests of the workers and the peasants. In this lies the ground of the stability of the Soviet power, and not in any so-called policy of terrorizing...