Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money collected by taxation, Secretary Henry Morgenthau said there might have to be a new tax bill in the next few months. To the Ways and Means Committee, which had just finished sweating over preliminaries for one new bill which adds $3,503,400,000 to the U.S. tax burden (TIME, June 30 et seq.), wringing another $10,000,000,000 out of the U.S. taxpayer seemed an obvious impossibility...
Last week a group of railroads (which remained carefully anonymous) talked over a plan for a $1,000,000,000 pool* to purchase new equipment with the help of RFC. This would ease the financial burden on railroads in receivership or short of cash, of which there are still many. For all roads it would avoid the necessity of selling any more equipment trust certificates in a market near the saturation point after whopping sales of $52,000,000 in June. It might even speed car production by bulking and standardizing orders and by multiplying pressure to make priorities effective...
...Chicago last month, ICC Chairman Joseph Eastman urged a group of shippers to help ease the railroads' burden by using trucks and barges wherever possible. A.A.R.'s Michael J. Gormley cracked back: "Let me say to you, Mr. Eastman, that we don't want you to relieve us of any business by the trucks or any other methods. The railroads ... are still in the game of looking for more business." But if the roads do find themselves 135,000 cars short this fall, trucks (of which the U.S. now has about 5,000,000) will...
...Clairs, we are invited to observe the psychological antics of unfamiliar characters. If Nemerov does not make his subject matter seem very important, that is because, in his handling of it, he does not make it seem convincing; it may be that he places too heavy a burden on his character, who not only suffers from paranois and homosexuality, but is besides, a drunkard, a drug addict, a bore to his friends, and a silly boy. Nemerov, however, is a writer to be taken into account; a brilliant stylist, he is the most accomplished writer of prose published...
Last winter it was reported that Backer Marshall Field had set May 1 as the deadline for PM to succeed, but before May 1 he put up another $500,000 to keep PM going four months longer. As a byproduct the new weekly would lighten the burden of PM's $22,000-a-week editorial costs...