Word: colins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroism can be compared, the most illustrious of America's first heroes was Captain Colin Purdie Kelly Jr. His citation was recorded in a single pregnant sentence of a communiqué issued by General Douglas MacArthur: "General MacArthur announced with great sorrow the death of Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr.. who so distinguished himself by scoring three direct hits on the Japanese capital battleship Haruna, leaving her in flames and in distress...
Eight Harvard students will have roles in the production, with John S. Wasley '44 as male lead. Others are Philip Foisie '44, David Duncan-Hall '45, Earl Montgomery '43, Theodore Yardley '42, Herbert Weiner '43, Donald Jair '45, and Justin Colin...
...this proposal would confiscate the return on the actual investment of many a stockholder who had bought securities on the basis of their capitalized earning power, it would also sabotage badly needed industrial efficiency by leveling efficient and inefficient companies all down toward one level of profits. Moon-faced Colin F. Stam, chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, stood out for the present type of tax which allows corporations to choose whether they will base their tax exemptions on capital investment or on average earnings over a four-year period...
...Machine parts made of powdered metals. Says Electrochemist Colin Garfield Fink of Columbia University: "The basic idea is simple. Fill any mold with a metal powder. Apply pressure, and increase the temperature to a certain point. ... A hard metal object is promptly produced." Advantages: speed, economy and the opportunity to make parts of a single object out of different metals, molded together...
Wise old (77) Representative Robert L. Doughton of Laurel Springs, N.C. had displayed his usual foresight. Ready was the Congressional tax expert, round-faced Colin F. Stam, with a much less direct approach to the voters' wallets. Mr. Stam brought in a list which tapped the middle-incomers much more lightly by income taxes but clipped everyone much more thoroughly via indirect or nuisance taxes (see Table, p. 22). True, Mr. Stam's income taxes do not pretend to bring the U.S. in as much new revenue as the Treasury's ($1.1 billion against $1.5 billion...