Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly everyone agrees that a good part of the money should come from license fees, gas taxes, etc. from those who use the roads. But how should the burden be split between the nation's 43 million private cars and 9 million trucks? The answer, a subject of bitter wrangling in every state legislature, has been fogged by propaganda fumes from the trucking industry, one of the most powerful lobbies in the U.S., and a smoke screen of publicity from the railroads, archfoes of the truckers...
Over the years, 14 states have passed laws of one kind or another to tax trucks on their weight and distance traveled, and thus made the highway tax load more equitable. The result is a hodgepodge of conflicting state legislation, which causes truckers to complain-legitimately-that the burden does not fall equally on local and transcontinental lines, and that long haul trucks are often unfairly penalized. But the trucking industry, a burly, brawling youngster which owes much of its growth to World War II, has not helped its case by its frequent contempt for present laws, fair...
Detroit had bought the Procession to Calvary in 1925 when the present building was under construction, got The Betrayal from an English collector 21 years later. Both were magnificent pieces, devout scenes of Christ under the burden of the cross and accepting the fatal kiss from Judas. But Sassetta's Agony in the Garden, in brilliant gold leaf, soft roses and browns with a rosy-cheeked angel under a cobalt-blue sky, was the handsomest of the three-and the hardest to get. It belonged to an English noblewoman named Lady Mary Catherine Ashburnham, who guarded it jealously...
...Fool won his first five starts this year. In the Metropolitan Handicap, first race in New York's "Handicap Triple Crown," he carried a whopping 130 Ibs. -108 Ibs. of Jockey Ted Atkinson and 22 Ibs. of lead and equipment-and won. In the Suburban Handicap his burden was 128 Ibs., and he won again. Fortnight ago, in the Carter Handicap, the handicapper asked him to carry 135, and still...
...help. The use of plutonium and other radioactive products for medicine, industry, etc., will increase so fast that there will be a growing market for all the plutonium they can produce. Atomic energy now costs the U.S. taxpayers $1.8 billion a year, and there is little prospect that the burden will lessen under the present law. With private industry in the field, atomic energy will stop being only an enormous drain; commercial atomic projects will be taxable, and thus a source of revenue. And instead of being "always ten years away," industrial atomic power will be a reality...