Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face-saver for the Prime Minister, Britain's stiff new tax has the same name as the shelved tax trap: The National Defense Contribution. Irrespective of whether a firm's profits are increasing so fast as to suggest "profiteering" or not, Simple Simon's tax is to bear with equal weight on virtually all British firms with annual net profits of more than $10,000 per year. It is a supertax. Its intent is to raise the existing average 25% income tax on British firms to 29% in the case of partnerships, 30% in the case...
...Germany are aiming at airfleets of at least 5,000 planes. The U. S. Army's authorized goal is 2,320 planes, the Navy's 1,910. In 1936 the Army had 1,192 planes, the Navy 977, but obsolescence is overtaking these craft almost as fast as the services buy new ones. Since Jan. 1, the Navy has ordered 248 planes and the Army 176, aside from last week's contract. By the end of the year the Army expects some 700 deliveries, most of them ordered bwfore...
...stay to help keep their discipline and deportment up to its high U. S. standard. For their official appearance, the Rockettes will dance four of their most famous routines in 16 minutes: Military March, in which 72 legs operate as synchronously as two; a buck & wing number; Midshipmen, a fast, stylized version of Annapolis drills; Beguine, a sultry, rumba-ish performance for which the girls make up like mulattoes...
...tiny Canton Island, near the sunrise end of the shadow path, confused frigate birds came in from the sea when darkness fell. In Peru, at the sunset end, bats flitted around the fast-working scientists. Radio crews of NBC at Canton Island and of CBS in Peru were able to broadcast lyrical descriptions. The sun's corona was almost circular, a form associated with the high sunspot activity currently manifested by the sun. Exulted white-thatched Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium : "This was the most beautiful of four totalities I have observed...
Lupe Lupien continues to lead the Crimson attack and is hitting at a fast .361 clip. The rise in the Varsity potency at the plate is evidenced by the jump this week in the team batting average in League contests from .226 to .252. Behind Lupien is Frankie Owen in the clean-up position with .324, while lead-off man Art Johns is clouting the ball at an even .300. Falling from first place to fifth in league fielding, the Mitchellmen hold a mediocre .229 percentage...