Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduction would have an even more direct effect. It would immediately increase the amount of money available to be spent on a competitive market. Further price rises could hardly fail to follow the release of additional spending money through tax reductions. At a time when corporation profits are so high that stockholders can hardly believe the figures on their dividend checks, it is difficult to imagine to what heights profits would soar if corporations were relieved of any substantial part of their tax "burden." In view of the present high level of national income the argument that industry needs...
With hopes that the band concert will bring University undergraduates in to the contribution ranks, Mrs. Brewer. Blackall, national chairman of the fund, announced, "If the Harvard Band's box-office appeal is what I expect, we will follow it up with another concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City shortly after the first of the year...
...more revealing forecast on her trousseau came from an authority close to the bride herself. "The princesses," she said, "naturally incline to follow traditional trends. If for any .reason one of them got the idea she'd like a skirt shorter or longer than was considered in the best taste, I am sure the Queen would scotch...
...have not been able to put in their ideology. If the Marshall Plan goes through, Western Germany will be included, because Western Europe cannot recover without the Ruhr and its related industries. If Germany does not get some such U.S. aid, chaos and then Communism are almost sure to follow. If the aid does bring German recovery, the not too pressing threat of German Communism will subside and Germans may have a fair chance to choose, as sooner or later every people must, their own form of government...
...fine introduction W. H. Auden says, "The last few pages in My Heart Laid Bare, which follow this entry, are some of the most terrifying and pathetic passages in literature. They present a man fighting against time to eradicate a life time's habits of thought and feeling, and set himself in order and acquire a history. . . . To the eye of nature, he was too late. As he spoke, the bird stooped and struck. But, to the eye of the spirit, we are entitled to believe he was in time - for, though the spirit needs time, an instant...