Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excess profits tax of 1940, it also vaguely promised relief, in famed Section 722, for those unfairly whacked. Under cover of 722's foggy wording, 34,000 corporations have filed claims for $12 billions paid in excess profits taxes. In an earnest attempt to clear away the fog, the Bureau of Internal Revenue issued a 210-page booklet. It told businessmen how they might try to get their money back...
...days the ship crept along an invisible coast. A leather-faced man with icy blue eyes and a perpetual squint strained for the leadsman's cry. Out of the fog that shrouded the Arctic sea, the muffled call came back: "Seven fathoms. ..." Suddenly the leadsman's cry changed: "The bottom has gone away...
...cold. One tank leaked slightly, but it was repaired. After that the tanks performed a miracle of storage. The liquid they held, when vaporized would become 240,000,000 cubic feet of inflammable gas. One afternoon last week, a white, cloudlike stream squirted from one of them. A thick fog drifted up. Then the whole sky ignited, and men working in the open company yard crisped and died like moths...
...Fog and the Pubs. Now, after almost five years of investigation in London and Paris, Dr. Mark Longaker, Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania, has written the most complete study of the poet to date. It concerns his "life and personality rather than his works...
...break came last week in the fog of rumor which has swirled about the Fisher Brothers since they quit General Motors (TiME, Aug. 14). The Brothers filed incorporation papers in Lansing, Mich, for two new companies, Fisher Brothers, Inc. and Fisher Motor Car Co. (They had previously incorporated in Delaware.) The companies, each of which has 1,000 shares of no par common stock, declared their purpose to design, manufacture, sell, repair and deal in airplanes, automobiles and "any & all automotive products." As usual, the Fishers kept their actual plans to themselves. Detroit's guess: the Fisher plans...