Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also worries because his close friends are far from "average." Depending on his mood, they range from such raffish types as Columnist Robert Ruark, Humorist H. Allen Smith and Singer Morton Downey to such upper-bracket individualists as Eddie Rickenbacker and General Motors President C. E. Wilson...
Educators have contributed more names to the 1950-51 edition of "Who's Who in America" than any other occupational group. The leading bracket, which includes college presidents and administrative "tops," high-ranking professors, deans, and similar "educational brass," is trailed closely by businessmen...
...exempt educational and charitable organizations which persist in "glaring abuses" of the exemptions, life insurance companies which "have unintentionally been relieved of income taxes since 1946," and short-lived Hollywood corporations de signed to dodge paying big taxes. He wanted to trim corporation income taxes in the bracket between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, proposed a "moderate" tax increase on any profits that jutted beyond the $50,000 level...
...numbers, he says, they are a danger for three reasons: 1) they get themselves and their friends into jams; 2) they are bad accident risks; and 3) they make a training ground for chronic alcoholics. "Many business leaders, professional men and high-powered executives [are] in this medical bracket...
Your Dec. 5 article relative to ghostwriters gave me a kick. By inference you say everybody in the upper bracket in Washington employs ghostwriters-except Generals Eisenhower and Kenney...