Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nearest thing to an official answer came from the Prime Minister's parliamentary assistant, Brooke Claxton, who made hopeful noises about increasing "the consuming and purchasing power of the whole community," presumably increasing tax revenues without upping tax rates. Said Mr. Claxton: "This is a great step forward in the equalization and fair distribution of income . . . one of the greatest and most daring . . . economic measures ever put forward." So far, the Mackenzie King Government has been no believer in deficit-finance, has met a good half of Canada's wartime costs by taxation. If the Government is consistent...
Ditches for Precision. The bombers' targets were close enough to the U.S. lines to make sweating doughboys hug their ditches and curse in exasperated admiration. An American battalion commander who had to take his outfit forward in a few minutes fought with a bulky phone, trying to find out whether the air operation was running on schedule. He got a connection to regimental HQ, bellowed into the mouthpiece...
Even after they had pushed through the zone of mortar and artillery fire the going was hard. German skirmishers and delaying parties fought stubbornly, fell back slowly. Lovat's men pushed on in a continual process of dashing forward, dropping in their tracks, firing a few rounds, snatching up pack and gun and dashing forward again...
...plants were getting into production so slowly (TIME, Feb. 14). But a fortnight ago Rubber Boss Bradley Dewey lopped 20,000,000 gallons off his estimated needs. Barring unexpected war demands, further improvement in the production of rubber-from-petroleum may mean another whiskey dividend to distillers. They look forward to an extension of the August holiday, or to another holiday this winter...
...mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have sometimes imagined, but wretchedly, one by one, crabwise the crouching men disembark, hip-deep, and begin to wade ashore. Their officer, at the blunt bow, stands erect and unprotected. As, one by one, he gestures his men forward, he is almost smiling...