Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxes on business when the news came out. Last February executives voted more than 2 to 1 in the FORTUNE Forum for heavier taxation, even though they were warned that business would have to pay most of the bill. But the Treasury's tax plan is almost the exact opposite of the program advanced by the management men-a program whose No. 1 and No. 2 planks were a lowering of income-tax exemptions, and a general sales...
President Conant has been in Washington, conferring with high defense officials, almost continually since his mission ended. Although no details have been revealed as to his exact occupation there, it is rumored that one of his important duties is attempting to solve the complicated question of how to keep industry stocked with brainpower, and at the same time supply the army with enough...
Finally the new committee will give a larger share of athletic responsibility to the boys who wear the jerseys. Functioning as a sort of student council for athletes, it will reveal through periodical reports, open to public view, its exact stand on every important situation that arises. Embarrassing problems such as the recent Negro incident would naturally be met by this committee. In addition, it would absorb the duties of the Undergraduate A. C. serving as a clearing house for complaints and suggestions, as the administrator of details such as managerial and cheer-leading competitions and the reception of visiting...
Although the exact time has not yet been set for resuming enlistment for this class, Lieutenant Madden urged last night that students interested in securing a place in the limited quota for the first naval district should assemble the necessary papers in advance so that they may apply without being delayed...
When the men in the Plotting Room have spotted the exact location of every ship at sea-some 600 independents and hundreds more in convoy-the charts are taken to another room where convoy experts fight a paper skirmish, determining the best routes for each ship to pursue in the light of information on where U-boats, enemy raiders and planes are operating. By the afternoon the plotted charts and recommended courses are forwarded to the naval staff for study. Then directions are teletyped to the secret headquarters, in a west-coast port, of the man whom Britons consider...