Word: cancel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three hustled off to jail were Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero−all members of the terrorist Nationalist party of Puerto Rico, the same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims...
Olson and May connected an extra-sensitive microphone to an amplifier and a loudspeaker, which they placed directly behind the microphone. When a sound wave hits the microphone, the loudspeaker reacts in such a way that it increases or reduces the air pressure in its vicinity just enough to cancel out the sound wave. The result is a small "quiet zone" near the microphone...
Taxes: Individual income taxes will be reduced about 10% on Jan. 1, as scheduled, and the excess-profits tax on corporations will expire. The Administration will ask Congress to cancel a 5% reduction in regular corporation taxes scheduled for April 1, and will propose a greatly expanded list of lower excise taxes to replace the present high taxes on a smaller number of items, e.g., purses and luggage...
...Russia granted $250 million towards North Korea's "recovery.?' Last week Red China agreed to send $317 million in "coal, cloth, cotton, grain, building materials, communications equipment, metal products, machinery, agricultural tools, fishing boats, paper and other daily necessities of the people." Red China also agreed to-cancel North Korea's war debts incurred up to next Jan. 1 (apparently a way of saying that North Koreans must pay occupation costs after that) and to "facilitate civil air transport between the Soviet Union and Korea" by letting a Soviet-Korean airline cross her territory. On hand...
CRIMSON Managing Editor George S. Abrams '54 asked readers to bear with the paper during this period. "We may have to run reviews by Brooks Atkinson and national columns by James Renton," Abrams said. "There will be complaints, of course, but I hope no one will cancel his subscription...