Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Company lands now planted in bananas, African oil palms and other crops, as well as dairy pastures, planted mahogany forests and building sites, are exempt from expropriation. Thus the drastic seizure will not immediately end United Fruit's Guatemala operation. But eventually, as the inevitable "Panama disease" (a fungus that attacks the roots) sickens the banana lands, the company, deprived of its reserve tracts, will have to cut production. And United Fruit is on notice that further investment in Guatemala would be unwelcome-and unwise...
...despite the distorted nature of this latest Inquisition, it has pointed up dramatically the fact that American propaganda efforts are still greatly inadequate for the job they must do. Looking behind soiled departmental linen, hung out by disgruntled employees, it is clear that U. S. psychological warfare must be exempt from both economic and ideological orthodoxy if it is to challenge the Soviets in the arena of the mind...
...could do that much easier and better by importing companies like the Boston Film Society, it has nothing to do with providing financial crutches for political groups or even creative groups, for pure money raising is irrelevant to the group's main purpose and threatens the University's tax-exempt status as well...
...meet the high (53,000 for march) draft call from the military. And for college students, the Defence Department's annual report indicated that the military expects no drastic developments in students and fathers could be drafted but other than that it devoted out the obvious: student are not exempt from the draft; they will have to serve sometime...
...jockeys could wear school colors and the horses wouldn't have to take entrance examinations," Hutchins told a special House Committee investigating tax-exempt foundations...