Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cent of Books...
Meanwhile, Perry revealed, the surrending of ration books to the College has been progressing. A casual checkup on one of the House dining halls last week revealed that from 75 to 80 per cent of the books have already been turned in, with the remainder coming in slowly...
...opposed by the Treasury as still being "heresy," and in its place, the Administration advanced the Doughton Bill for voluntary Pay-as-you-earn without "forgiveness." This would have "rewarded" those taxpayers who were able to pay two years' taxes by July 1 with a 1 to 4 per cent reduction in their 1942 liabilities. That this would benefit only those who were wealthy enough to have considerable savings and that it would, therefore, help the rich and not the poor seems not to have occurred to Randolph Paul and the other Treasury experts...
...same time that Pay-as-you earn was defeated, the plans for a 20 per cent withholding tax on incomes, regarded by all as one of the few effective, weapons to combat inflation, was recommitted, was it was obviously impossible, for most persons to pay last year's taxes and this at the same time...
...spite of the tremendous ground swell of public opinion which is evidently behind the idea of an effective Pay-as-you-earn plan, the Gallup Poll reporting from 81 to 87 per cent in the various categories polled in favor of it, Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee has seen fit to maneuver the whole question back into his committee with the intention of killing it or at least holding it up for the rest of this year. He is "gloriously satisfied." But those Americans who are faced with the ever-recurring problem of paying last year...