Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt a bill which his signature would make the Revenue Act of 1934. The new law, it was estimated, would add some $417,000,000 per year to the Treasury's present income. Collections would have been $55,000,000 more if a Senate amendment for a flat 10% addition to all income taxes had not been rejected by the House. Persons with earned incomes of less than $25,000 get a small tax reduction. Corporations, higher incomes, big estates foot the bill for increases. The levies...
...catch off bases. Right in the middle of the bench sat a youth weighing upwards of 200 pounds. "Easy out," Frank decided. When the stout one was safely located on first, the Andover captain remarked, "Oh, by the way, that chap can do the 100 in 10 seconds flat...
...Roman Catholic Church, 72 bishops, 14 abbots and Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. On the altar steps knelt George William Cardinal Mundelein. All the officiating churchmen were vested in red, the color of the day which was St. Mark's. Flat on his stomach before the altar steps, his face in his arms, his arms on a pillow, lay a figure clad all in white...
...loss for the same period last year when Steel's operations really meant money out of pocket. Noteworthy was an increase in efficiency. Steel shipped 18% less tonnage in the first quarter than in the previous quarter, yet its operating profit was up a flat...
...hyperglaecemic concentrations of blood carbohydrates" he said, running merrily into the open arms of his Harvard trainers. "I was just an ordinary flat -foot but sugar has made me what...