Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief fault was its crudeness. Its basic principle: any corporate earnings above 8% on invested capital were "excessive," should be taxed at 30 or 65% (later reduced to 20 or 40%). This was in effect to treat all capital as though it bore the same risk, should earn the same return. But "invested capital," an artificial concept, was only one among many income-producing factors. Results were a tragicomedy of discrimination. Small, growing, high-profit companies found themselves in higher tax brackets than mature, stabilized giants. Corporations with little capital other than their wits (advertising agencies, etc.) paid at higher...
...their ugly duckling daughter (16-year-old Rita Quigley) - is about to fly the coop, Cinemactress Crawford conies into her honest own. The result is a moving marital drama, which, although it talks more than most cinemas, also has more to say. It also demonstrates that Buchmanism is a bore, at least in the movies, and that Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Rose Hobart, Nigel Bruce and Bruce Cabot...
...Breaking up coal in veins by use of explosives is still standard practice in U. S. mining, and despite precautions is still hazardous. Coal Age described a new method of mining by hydraulic pressure: a hole is bored in a coal seam, a rubber tube is inserted in the bore, and the tube is then powerfully expanded by forcing oil into it, fracturing the coal. Experimental installations broke about 2.500 tons of coal each before failing...
...recent deaths of his mother and one of his sons, anxious to be remembered as the good boss of a good town. Shriners, and American Newspaper Guildsmen (whom Mr. Crump testily invited to stay away), are to convene in Memphis this summer; the Boss presumably would rather bore the delegates than have them spread discreditable tales about Memphis morals...
...Nashville housewife, answered sharply: "I want Roosevelt for a third term, a fourth term or as many terms as he wants." Then she ran the gamut of Presidential possibilities, called Dewey "a little two-for-a-nickel lawyer," Taft "the perpetual whiner of the Senate and No. 1 bore," Willkie "head of the Southern Power Corporation when the companies robbed the few people able to pay for or use electric service...