Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John soaked them further last week by raising the tax on gasoline from eight pence (16?) per gallon to ninepence (18?) Including the new tax, the British motorist will now pay about 39? for an imperial gallon of gas-equivalent to about 35½for what U. S. citizens call a gallon. Immediately this week British omnibus companies raised their fares, so that Sir John upped gasoline tax really "soaked everybody...
...just raised the basic British income tax rate to 27½%-but this was more astonishing to less heavily taxed foreigners than to Britons, for they have been paying 25% anyhow. Excited about 27½%, the New York Post put through a transatlantic telephone call, asked Fleet Street reporters to coax in a few Lodoners at random off the street to be questioned by New York. A van driver (truck driver), George Merrick, said: I think it is a very fair tax for the working...
...schools, and classroom and campus resound with students' criticisms of the social order. Flummoxed by this paradox, businessmen are getting increasingly hot under the collar about "visionary" professors. The institution they attack most often is the fountainhead of "progressive" education, Columbia University's Teachers College, which they call "The Big Red University...
...Princeton, Dr. Einstein accepted the experiment as another prop for Relativity. Some of his admirers agreed with him, but some of his critics thought the experiment proved the existence of the ether. When the question was aimed at Experimenter Ives, he gave this ambiguous answer: "If you wish to call the energy pattern of light that is transmitted the ether, then you can accept the evidence as proof that the ether exists...
This afternoon the Varsity meets a highly touted St. Johns nine on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock with Tom Healey scheduled to foil for the Crimson. Coach Fred Mitchell yesterday used three third-basemen, Galluccio, Ulin, and Fulton, and it is uncertain who will get the starting call in the hot corner today...