Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beginning last year, the University, despite its $170,000,000 of investments, began to feel constricting economic pressure. Estimated income fell $25,000 short of estimated expenditures for the past fiscal year. In September the Departments took a 10 per cent overall cut. The Faculty assumed an increased burden of teaching. Tutorial work fell on fewer men and sections in larger courses increased. English A sections, for example, jumped to 30 students each. Meanwhile taxation's hand slipped more dollars from the professors' wallets. The Faculty falls neatly into the bracket whose income taxes have taken the biggest proportional leap...
...full British Cabinet make up the War Cabinet). A keystone of the Commonwealth system is that the four Dominions-Australia, Canada, New Zealand. South Africa-are not responsible to the British Parliament. Yet under the present system the War Cabinet must, and does, bear the Empire's burden of decision in World...
...burden for Lend-Lease: The British depended heavily upon their Far Eastern tin and rubber exports for much of the dollar exchange, which they still need. The Empire's pre-Pearl Harbor contribution (exclusive of the United Kingdom itself): some $50,000,000 a month...
Professor Harris relates the Social Security program to most of the major issues of the day--decline in interest rates, stagnation, deficit financing, and relief and wage policies. His most original contribution is his study of the incidence and effects of pay-roll taxes where he shows that the burden of a pay-roll tax may fall on other factors in production or the consumers rather than the wage-earner. He also performs a valuable service in stressing that consideration must be given to the needs of Social Security itself as an institution for old age benefits. Too much attention...
...burden of the patriotic dissertation by Messrs. Beaverbrook, Truman, Willkie was the same as that written in heart's blood on countless memos on the President's toy-cluttered desk: give the war effort a single director, give that director total powers. It was the chant of industry, the roar of the press. It was what the people had wanted since June...