Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handful of bankrupt undergraduates scurry over to University and Lehman Halls for loans to meet their expenses. For non-veterans these University loans present the best possible solution to financial problems. But for the veteran, waiting patiently for a wayward government check, the current lending arrangement imposes an unnecessary burden on his slim resources...
...term subsidization of the sixteen nations in western Europe. Spread over a periods of four years, the ERP intends to thwart Russian expansion through a rebirth of European industry and by fostering confidence in democratic forms of government. Although U. S. loans will provide the necessary funds, the actual burden of economic recovery rests with each individual nation. Those countries receiving American aid must insure their recovery by stringent budget supervision, a complete stabilization of national currencies, and the use of export profits solely to pay off current debts. The mechanics of such a plan are unassailable. Each nation...
...additional spending money through tax reductions. At a time when corporation profits are so high that stockholders can hardly believe the figures on their dividend checks, it is difficult to imagine to what heights profits would soar if corporations were relieved of any substantial part of their tax "burden." In view of the present high level of national income the argument that industry needs the additional incentive that can be obtained by tax cuts appears more laughable than logical...
...former group (whose number hovers somewhere over the three hundred mark) could quite easily be absorbed in House dining halls. Splitting the entire number into seven segments of less than fifty men, and giving each cluster the option of taking meals in one particular House would hardly be a burden to dining halls where the very lines themselves disappear for minutes at a time...
...bedroom, Rolf Berndt puzzled over the strange cable: "Send $150. See Gitte soon, (signed) Siedentopf." Rolf was a cautious man. Says he: "I wasn't going to send money to someone I never heard of." So in the air freight office at Frankfurt, Private, Siedentopf and his fragile burden waited in vain while airport officials waved a bill for $130 freight charges. "Can't I send it C.O.D.?" asked the G.I. The answer was no. "Oh, well, then just store it. I'll be back." Into the storeroom went the box. After an uncomfortable 24 hours, restless...