Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after, the song reached its stride, and with it came complaints from Si Oliver, arranger for Jimmy Lunceford, who claimed it came from his arrangement of Dear Old Southland, from Gene Krupa who said he made it up in one of his earlier Brunswick records, from Count Basic who has used the lick in numerous of his arrangements. Jerry Kreuger, a 52nd Street singer, said she has used the line "Don't get icky with the 1-2-3" in New York since last summer after hearing it in the Catskills...
...Present basic individual income tax rate (highest in the world) is 5 ½ shillings on the pound (in the U. S. that would be 371 cents on the dollar) for incomes above $625 a year. That rate will remain, but to make conscription of manpower more palatable to the lower classes, the Government also made a gesture of conscripting wealth. Surtaxes on incomes from $10,000 to $40,000 were raised 5%, on those above $40,000, 10%. Sample taxes: on a childless married man's income...
Main U. S. interest in Bolivia is still tin. The U. S. imports about 45% of the world's tin, has no mines in her own boundaries, a small one in Alaska. Basic war material, indispensable for the manufacture of bearings, tin travels far to reach its biggest market. There are big smelters in the Malay Peninsula, in The Netherlands and Great Britain, but the small smelters of the U. S. refine only a minute proportion, and Bolivian tin reaches the U. S. after a trip to Britain. Facing a possible war shortage, Bolivian tin has figured largely...
...skin color; stature; facial form; size and shape of head. A national population may be a confusing potpourri of many races and racial blends, and the most typical representatives of one race may be scattered among many nations. A specialist in racial anthropology must track down the basic racial features and distinguish them in their jumbled context...
From the first, Stevens saw that the Civil War would be a long war, ridiculed the statesmen who thought the South would be exhausted in six months, urged that it be "laid waste," "depopulated," "planted with a new race of freemen." He saw that slavery was the basic economic and military weapon of the South, might be similarly exploited by the North, insistently urged the freeing of the slaves...