Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RETIRED WORKERS, 65 and over, get a brand-new tax credit amounting to 20% of their taxable income up to $1.200. If the retired taxpayer's wife is 65 or over, she also gets the 20% credit on $1,200 of her own income (or, in community-property states, on the next $1,200 of joint income). Those younger than 65 who are retired under local, state and federal pension plans also get this credit, but only on their pension incomes. In computing the credit, the taxpayer must subtract from the $1,200 base his social-security payments...
...another program, a commercial for a cake mix neglected to talk about the product, told viewers instead about how tough things were in the kitchen before cake mixes were invented. As a result, lots of housewives bought cake mixes, but not the advertiser's brand...
SEAGRAMS OF CANADA, which has been looking for a name-brand rum to add to its line, finally found one in the British West Indies. Seagrams bought the Myers Rum companies in Jamaica and the Bahamas, will continue to make Myers' dark Jamaican...
Brando in this show is one glorious meathead. The gone look, the reet vocabulary and the sexual arrogance are still the Brando brand of behavior. But for once the mannerisms converge, like symptoms, to point out the nature of the man who has them. The audience may never forget that Brando is acting, but it will know that he is doing a powerful acting...
...horse to horse, and frying pan to fire. In time everybody is after him, but the one to catch him first is Nalinle (Jean Peters), whose object is squawhood. Together they build a little mountain hideout and plant some corn. When Army scouts find them, Massai, Nalinle and their brand-new papoose prove too homey a family to break up, so Massai goes free. How the scouts straighten out this arbitrary law enforcement with headquarters will have to wait for the sequel, to be titled, no doubt, Son of Apache...