Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hole Closed. The Bureau of Internal Revenue closed a tax loophole. Some commodity traders have been converting short-term capital gains (taxable up to 86½%) into long-term gains (taxable at only 25%) by inducing brokers to postpone recording gains till six months after the transactions. The Revenue Bureau ordered brokers to record every transaction when made...
...represents himself as a liberal and is seeking re-election on his program of supporting, among other things, the State Farm Bureau's demands for a state power authority, consolidation of rural schools, and development of cooperatives...
...press secretary. Likable, intelligent, usually tired, he dogtrots through a delicate and strategic job; he is also handicapped by Mr. Truman's understandable but unhelpful desire to keep all details of his personal life private. Ross went to high school with the President, became chief of the Washington Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, once won a Pulitzer prize for his stories on the Hoover depression...
...chances of World War III depended on the outcome of a whole series of struggles. Europe obviously could not be won without U.S. dollars, but it surely would not be won by dollars alone. What would it take? From anxious London, TIME'S Bureau Chief John Osborne outlined an answer...
...cited the recent investigation of Edward U. Condon, head of the government Bureau of Standards, as being typical of "organized persecution...