Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most retailers fight a sales tax for fear that it might depress sales. But on balance all the admitted evils of a sales tax seem less than those of the probable alternatives of again boosting income and corporate taxes. At least, a federal sales tax would make all citizens conscious of the cost of Government, and by so doing, increase by that much their zeal to keep it down...
...should or should not print. Usually, its editorial page has assumed a non-partisan character, and its summer editors have concentrated their efforts on Summer School news, reviews, and an occasional sports story. When there has been a difference of opinion, both parties have always yielded a bit. Conscious of the School's financial investment, the SUMMER CRIMSON has allowed the Weld Hall administration considerable voice in the paper's management, unlike its winter counterpart which stands aloof from all Faculty interference...
...souped-up old jalopy driven by some wild-eyed youngster, usually seen bulling through traffic, fenders flapping and exhaust stacks rumbling. But last week, on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, a superior sort of hot-rod was in evidence: handsome, beautifully tuned machines built by safety-conscious young men who could talk intelligent shop with any engineer in Detroit...
...fact is that most of Britain's vivid new airplanes are not yet in real production. It is British custom to show new models while they are still in the prototype stage. In the security-conscious (and sometimes security-bogged) U.S., a new airplane sometimes flies for years before the public gets a peek...
...Angeles, a beer ad urged: DON'T GO TO WAIST DRINK REGAL PALE. In New York. Minneapolis and five other cities, Stouffer's restaurants offered special low-calorie lunches; the Pennsylvania Railroad had a 470-calorie "Streamliner" on its dining-car menus. Domino Sugar asked a "diet-conscious public to recognize that three teaspoons of sugar actually contain fewer calories than half a grapefruit . . . or an apple ... or even three small tomatoes...