Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state's troubles were largely due to initiative 172, a pension measure put over last autumn by the Communist-dominated Washington Pension Union and its president, a crafty, smooth-talking party-liner named William J. Pennock, 33. Under its terms the old folks not only get money for mortgage payments, rent, tax assessments, insurance, food & clothing, but free medical & dental care, free hospitalization, free home-nursing service and free medicines, glasses and artificial limbs...
...AMERICANS: "It is a gross oversimplification to say that Britain's present difficulties are solely due to mistakes in British policy." FOR BRITONS : "For a generation past, the British people have been paying far too little attention to their competitive position in the world...
...Philadelphia, the tax receiver's office mailed 10,000 receipts to citizens who paid up, got back 28 receipts with checks to cover the same amounts. In Dallas, Internal Revenue officials received an unsigned letter enclosing $105 and a Bible reference: "Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due . . ." (Romans 13:7) In Bari, Italy, Widow Teresa Porcaro looked at her tax bill, forthwith died of a heart attack...
...Missionary. Pope concluded that many Africans do not expect much help from the missions on the road to equality. "In fact, they often look upon the missions as in the camp of the opposition, due to the white control of the mission program and arrangements whereby governments support mission schools...
...this red raging was due to what the Coca-Cola company calls "our own individual EGA." By last week its Coke selling campaign had proved so successful that five bottling plants were clanking away in Milan, Leghorn, Venice and Rome. Several hundred thousand bottles were sold daily, and the Communists rightly feared it was another victory for U.S. free enterprise. Complained one Red: "Yesterday I went into my favorite wineshop and found three people there. All were drinking Coca-Cola. The humiliation...