Word: countering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complexities of the tax problem there emerges the one generalization that the increase in disposable income after taxes would result in a corresponding rise in prices and counter balance the possible advantages of the tax cut. A period of inflationary trends is the worst time to put more money into immediate circulation, and the best time for the government to pay off the national debt. A cut that induced savings might have some value, but the Knutson Bill frees from 10 to 30 percent of individual taxes for ready spending. And with the already rising prices, little saving is done...
...year-old anthropologist (and cousin of King Paul), was still in good shape after sampling the native customs of Manhattan. In the U.S. for a lecture tour, the Prince and his pretty Princess Irene submitted themselves to a subway ride and hot dogs at a Times Square stand-up counter. They then returned to the Ritz-Carlton...
...carry through a Marshall Plan to fight Communist-fomented dissatisfaction in Europe if we are unable to counter-act that very same condition here at home...
...Only Pray." Japan perhaps struck the keynote for the world. Throughout the islands, huge gongs sounded 108 times-each stroke to counter one human evil in the new year (which was a conservative estimate). The year thus heralded was called the year of Ne (the Mouse)-traditionally a year of activity, humility, but also of the plenty for which all yearned. Emperor Hirohito offered his subjects two New Year's poems, written by himself. One advised: "Emulate the strength of the pine trees of the seashore, which stand the fierce sea breezes of the four seasons...
Rebutting the faculty position in a counter-statement released after yesterday's conference with Dean Bender, Harry A. Mendelssohn '48, HYD chairman, delared that "the publication of such a magazine with outside circulation and contributions is a legitimate activity of a Harvard organization, and one which has ample precedent in earlier Harvard publications...