Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaillard can survive until this week's end, when the National Assembly goes on Easter vacation, he can look forward to a full month in which to work toward a settlement with Tunisia, free of parliamentary interference...
Clergymen, politicians, resistance heroes came forward to defend Pastor Mathiot. Said Charles Westphal, vice president of the French Protestant Federation and a veteran of the wartime French underground: "Mathiot's action is justified by the prevalence of torture in Algeria ... He obeyed the highest moral law there is. His act is symptomatic of the great unrest in French consciences today." Other signs of unrest: the French Reformed Church, as well as the Catholic Church, has repeatedly drawn attention to abuses in Algeria. Speaking not only against excessive use of violence there but against bitter anti-Algerian propaganda at home...
...will probably get about an 11% cut v. a 12% cut in 1954, giving the taxpayer in the $5,000-a-year-and-under bracket (the biggest group) as much as $1.60 a week more in his pay envelope. Loss in Government revenues: $4 billion. ¶ Corporations can look forward to a corporate rate reduction from 52% to 50%. Government loss: $1 billion. ¶ Excise taxes, which have outlived their wartime purpose to discourage use of scarce material and transportation, are certain to be slashed. Likely targets: the manufacturers' auto excise tax, which adds $150-$200 to the cost...
...without a cut. The answer of tax-cutters is that a cut eventually generates new revenue by stimulating economic activity; for example, the Government lost some $5 billion yearly in revenue when it cut taxes in 1954, but within a year, as the tax cut helped push the boom forward once more, revenue was up $7.8 billion. Those in favor of a tax cut contend that it is a more effective spur than a public-works program. A tax cut can be made fast, putting cash directly into pockets for spending on consumer goods in about two months, thus quickly...
...researched Western history is too grim to blend with comedy. But much of the book is engaging and bouncy, particularly when, at journey's end, Jaimie is a boy no longer, having discovered what it is men see in women: they "look somehow larger undressed than dressed, both forward and rear...