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...them and his lovely Georgia-born wife in a car and trailer and drove all the way to Lisbon with a chauffeur who was under 40 and hence by terms of the armistice not supposed to be permitted outside France. Last week wangling Chariot Brousse brooked the first brake in a long and happy career...
...borne by larger, well-established firms. His remedy: "The best tax system in the world will not balance the budget for us at the present time. . . . The best we can do is to stimulate production immediately and revise the tax system so that it will not act as a brake upon industry." He proposed to set up a tax commission immediately upon election, find out the answers to three questions: 1) what the present tax structure will yield "when business really gets going"; 2) the real national income at full employment; 3) the possible tax revenue when the national income...
Pontiac eights will cost only $25 more than sixes this year. Because 1940 Torpedoes clicked so well, all '41s will be Torpedoes. Bigger windshields, improved brake drums, interior safety lights...
...previously considered nonmusical. He hopes some day to make use of electrical instruments capable of playing sliding tones, get any desired sounds in any desired rhythm. For the present, Percussionist Cage contents himself with "dragons' mouths," wood blocks, rice bowls hit with chopsticks, temple gongs, pipe lengths, secondhand brake drums, baby rattles, maracas, wind glass, thunder sheets, washboards, cowbells, "fin-gersnaps & footstomps," flower pots, güiro, sirens (for the use of which he had to get police permission), claves, police whistles, the jawbone...
...President Roosevelt." In Washington, Third-Termers said that Senator Ellender had acted on his own, that an uninstructed delegation from Louisiana was precisely what they wanted. But Little Bull's booing seemed to indicate that for politicos who are on the skids, Term III is useless as a brake...