Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something for Everybody. Individual taxpayers would find the new schedules as hard to understand as ever, but not at all difficult to take; there was something for everybody. Lifting of personal exemptions from $500 to $600 (and an extra $600 for those 65 or over) would take all or much of the sting out of the income tax for low-income families. For 7,400,000 lower-bracket families (up to $2,000 net income) it meant no more income tax at all. For about 55 of every 100 taxpayers-those with more than $2,000 but less than...
...give maximum shock effect. Up-to-date bombs, intended to make the most of the radioactive effect, may be angled differently. Their explosive plutonium hearts may be surrounded by material chosen for its ability to absorb radiation and neutrons. When the bomb goes off they would turn into extra-deadly isotopes. Such a bomb would be a double threat. It could devastate a comparatively small area by shock and heat. Then the isotope fog could drift slowly downwind, killing by radiation...
...study gradually collapsed, but they felt closely identified with their group and with the starving throughout the world. They had occasional "spells of elation, sometimes bordering on ecstasy," or were unduly depressed and discouraged. For four of the men the strain was too great: they cheated by eating extra food and were dropped from the experiment...
...Among the landlord eviction, divorce, and traffic violation cases that predominate, we get a few crack-pot cases of an extra-legal nature," Jerome J. Shestack stated bemusedly last night...
...Activities Fee could accomplish, without reservation, its aim of ending the problems of Radcliffe extra-curricular organizations, then the submersion of individual choice might be worth the attempt. The fact is, however, that there are strong reservations to be made, that along with the security promised by the plan come two new evils which would counteract anything gained and more...