Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excess Profits: Bitterest fight in Congress was over the Treasury's demand to junk the average-earnings method of figuring excess-profits taxes. The Treasury lost. But the definition of "excess profits" was changed for companies using the investment-capital option: they must figure their excess-profits credit (formerly a uniform 8% of capital) as a 8% return on the first $5,000,000 in capital, 7% on the balance...
Closest crony and bitterest critic of Director La Cava, now 49, is another unreconstructed Hollywoodian, one W. C. Fields. Fields refers to La Cava as The Wop. La Cava's nickname for the comedian is unprintable. Crack golfers, they used to play for $100 a hole. Fields, who says he would cheat his own grandmother for cash, generally managed to talk his opponent out of match and stakes. He has willed him (although La Cava doesn't know it) $5,000 for mad money...
...other stories about the misuse of Lend-Lease funds, labelled them as examples of the vicious rumors, distortion of facts, or just plain, dirty falsehoods, which he said were being circulated in an organized campaign to sabotage the program to defeat Hitlerism. The condemnation was one of the bitterest he had ever made-and one of the truest...
...isolationist publisher of the U.S. was that his cousin Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) threatened to out-McCormick him. Pulling out all the isolationist stops, Cousin Joe and News Chief Editorialist Reuben Maury (who also writes editorials for interventionist Collier's) vied with the Tribune's bitterest, Anglophobe, Roosevelt-hating, gallows-dancing, isolationist editorials, cartoons and news. One News editorial played variations on the theme: "[The Administration] is accused of keeping the war scare pumped up to frightful proportions in order that it may quietly and under pretext of wartime emergency transform our democracy into some sort...
...taut, unhappy, sour. Much changed is war-weary Japan. Rice is rationed. Meatless days are a patriotic duty-only blubbery whale meat is on the free list. The production of warming sake (rice wine) is discouraged. Sugar has been replaced by long-forbidden saccharin in many commercial foods. Bitterest of all to the nervous, twitching Japanese is the shortage of cigarets...