Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he liked to plow new ground in the Lordls vineyard. In 1913, when such causes were far from popular, he took the lead in pushing a minimum wage law through the Oregon legislature- one of the first com pulsory wage laws in the U.S. But perhaps his dearest concern of all, as both priest and bishop, is in developing his church in rural areas...
...world is the foundation of one of the finest novels so far this year. Readers with queasy stomachs may shrink from an environment in which the unbelievably sordid has become a way of life. They will also come away with some of Algren's own tender concern for his wretched, confused and hopelessly degenerate cast of characters. In that, Writer Algren scores a true novelist's triumph...
...sell out"); 2) the problem of paying inheritance taxes. As the two partners owned almost all the corporation's stock, the shares had no established market value. A public sale, said Vandeveer, would have brought a price far below the company's worth as a going concern. Yet it was precisely Allied's value as a going concern which the Government would have used as a basis for inheritance taxes. Since these taxes "would have greatly exceeded the estate value . . . held outside of Allied by either owner ... each knew that the untimely death of the other could...
Workers were politely but firmly reminded that wage demands would have to be "compatible" with production-a reflection of official Communist concern with "liberated" labor's cry for more pay. Further, party members and intellectuals would be mobilized for trips into the countryside to re-educate peasants who are balking at high Communist taxes and taking to banditry and guerrilla forays...
...year) were third on the list of her dollar spending (after coal and industrial machinery). The saving of $200 million would help to meet the dollar deficit. Oil sales in the U.S. would help still more, and Canadians thought that the U.S. would not ignore this fact in its concern for the western world's economic health...