Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were other benefits. The optional standard deduction was switched from a flat $500 to 10% of net income (so long as it does not exceed $1,000). Thus, the $8,000-a-year man could list $800 for deductions if he does not choose to itemize them. A bigger saving was in a new allowance after the tax has been computed. For the last two years, this has been a flat 5%. In the new schedules, this subtraction would be 17% on the first $400 of tax, 12% on the rest up to $100,000, 9.75% above that...
...Shock, No Surprise. The congressional reaction was privately violent. Bob Taft was critical because the President had not mentioned a bigger air force. Illinois Republican Leo Allen, who has kept U.M.T. bottled up in his House Rules Committee, said coldly that there was "no more prospect" for a vote now than there had been before. The President was damned on all sides. In a normal world, his program would have sunk without a trace...
...Girl, the Bishop & the Bomb. This decade of struggle for the survival of freedom might or might not include a war between the U.S. and Russia. Even if there is no war, the struggle will be more "total" than World War II. The stakes are bigger, the danger is greater, the battlefronts are broader. Not all the weapons are military. Last week, for instance, brought two stories (one about a girl in Prague and the other about a bishop in Sarajevo) which illustrated a force more important to the security of the U.S. than possession of the atomic bomb...
...brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is bigger and meaner. Sometimes brown rats massacre black rats, but more commonly they interbreed, blending the species into an intermediate type. The U.S., which has both kinds (and others too), is a melting pot for rats...
Sonotone Corp., which contends that its gross of $11,000,000 last year was bigger than Zenith's, chalked up 40% of its cost to manufacturing, the rest to training of acousticians and patient education. Zenith's McDonald considers all such frills so much mumbo-jumbo to spark sales. He thinks aids should be sold off department-store shelves and by mail order...