Word: felling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bureau of Internal Revenue last week finished counting the dollars it took in during fiscal 1939. They totaled $5,181,665,738, a drop of $477,099,576 from 1938. Off most sharply were individual income tax payments, which fell $257,386,851. Pay roll taxes were off only...
...policeman tried to tackle Ferguson, but the mad man, wet and slippery, kicked him away, kept his grip on the midget until she was dead. Fox got three more policemen; Ferguson fought them with chairs, a table, his teeth. They had not subdued him when, suddenly, he stopped fighting, fell dead of a heart attack...
Girls avoided the young man. He fell desperately in love with one of them, but was afraid to approach her. Naturally, no attractive young woman was going to tie herself for life to an earless young man. He fell to brooding. His devoted mother began to worry about him. She went to Dr. Allan Ragnell, distinguished Stockholm plastic surgeon, and asked him if he could remove her own ears, transplant them to the head...
Into the office of Franklin D. Roosevelt one day last week filed a hundred-odd Washington correspondents, for the President's usual bi-weekly press conference. As usual, the reporters fell into two groups: 1) those assigned exclusively to cover President Roosevelt's activities, 2) other correspondents and their newspaper friends. Members of the first group drifted toward the front of the room, as usual, and as usual the United Press's tremendous Fred Storm lowered himself into his special chair so that those in the rear could see past him. Franklin Roosevelt gripped a long cigaret...
...utility super-holding companies, J. P. Morgan's United Corp. was the biggest and fell the hardest. United now looks back ruefully on its ten checkered years of existence and hopes that it has finished taking its licking. In this connection it announced last week its first step toward quitting business as a utility holding company and setting up as an investment trust. It reported that in the past three months it had invested nearly $2,500,000 in 15 leading common stocks (Chrysler, DuPont, General Electric...