Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock: King and Queen leave Buckingham Palace and drive to Westminster Abbey...
...gasoline used for non-highway purposes. Anyone in the know plays the refunding game. It has been estimated that fraudulent tax refunds in the State have been running from one to two million dollars a year. When Joe Keith last May, as assistant motor vehicle commissioner, started a drive against the tax dodgers, he cut down refunds by $68,000 a month, or over half a million dollars for the last eight months of the year. The saving should run better than $1,000,000 this year...
...estimates of revenues and expenditures showing a 1938 deficit of $418,000,000. Contrary to all recent precedent, most Congressmen passed over taxes and expenditures to seize on Economy as the thing which appealed to them most (TIME. May 3). There was still doubt, however, whether the President would drive a reluctant Congress, or the Congress would drive a reluctant President, to the first specific beginnings of Economy. Last week Congressmen gave indications that their good intentions were going to be more obstinate than the President...
...logs over the piles driven to impound them, they might shoot away from the mill down the Rainy, into Lake of the Woods; if the river went down as far as it rose logs would lie stranded on the banks; and in either case the last big logging drive in Minnesota would be spoiled...
First since 1932, International's drive was to be the last for reasons connected less with conservation than with the temperament of the Chippewa Indians. Minnesota's only remaining stands of virgin timber are on its Indian reservations and Government preserves. Some years ago, International bought its timber from the Nett Lake Reservation for about $90,000. At the time it was the plan of the U. S. Indian Service to get the whole area cut clean in the hope that the Chippewas would take up farming. This plan has now been changed because the Chippewas prefer...