Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that added up to 85% of operating income, provides for an ingenious graduated income tax in reverse. If production stays at present levels, the companies will pay 50% of operating income as their basic tax, plus 25% as a surtax. But the surtax will shrink with increased production and disappear entirely when production is doubled...
...work force of 20 million. Agriculture is still largely backward, and industry suffers from lack of capital and from a feudal fiscal system, in which varying and discriminatory interest rates make it difficult for small businessmen to operate. The textile industry, which has seen many of its markets disappear behind the Iron Curtain, is in bad shape, last year slumped to 117 on the national production index (1938 = 100), compared to 180 for industry as a whole. Such big tax-supported state monopolies as Institute per la Ricostruzione Industriale (I.R.I.) and Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (E.N.I.) spread over Italy...
...Cadillac section of the hall. He couldn't take his eyes off the $15,000 model. One was crmine-lined; another had a television set, telephone, and tape recorder in the back seat. The man was so absorbed by the Cadillacs that he didn't see his wife disappear into the swirling mobs until he found her ten minutes later looking wistfully at the station wagons...
...only birds, but burros, rabbits, and ducks appear and disappear with Blackstone's aid. He has had to abandon, however, the most astounding of his stunts, the vanishing elephant. The beast was too big for road trips. A horse proved more mobile. With Blackstone in the saddle, the horse galloped into a tent which then collapsed. When the tent was removed, their stood the magician with the saddle in his hand. Years ago when he visited Cairo, the vanishing horse became a disappearing camel...
...always been a blend of Martha and Mary,* of the temper represented by Vincent de Paul, the great fighter against poverty, and the spirit of Francis of Assisi, who considered it more important to live in poverty than to fight it. From time to time, a Maryknoll sister will disappear from her mission rounds and make her way to a secluded farmhouse close to Maryknoll's main building. That is the Maryknoll cloister, where 18 sisters (there will ultimately be 24) selected from the active side of the order lead a separate existence of lifelong austerity and devotion...