Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paragraph 7, you state that the various "fiscal manipulations" of the trusts ". . . gave Textron an unfair advantage over taxpaying corporations." Textron is, of course, not tax free. In fact, as a result, in part, of the financial transactions referred to by you, Textron was able to increase its sales and therefore its taxes, enormously. In 1940, Textron paid less than $60,000 in taxes; in 1947, more than $6,000,000 in state and federal income taxes...
...Free Toupees. Jenner was outraged that U.S. dollars should go to socialist Britain. "In England," he declared, "if individuals are unfortunate enough to have lost all their hair . . . they obtain free toupees." The Republicans' ponderous Gene Millikin, whose bald dome glistens like a submerged boulder in a Colorado stream, rose in mock dismay: "What would make a man so depraved that he would want to cover an honest bald head...
...These were a free, happy people," he says, looking at the sculptures affectionately as though they were his friends. "I should have liked much better to have lived at that time...
...week's end, a jampacked studio audience (some had written in last summer for the free but hard-to-get tickets) and several million listeners and televiewers heard the first two acts of Aida living as it has seldom lived before. For his 82nd birthday, the great conductor had given the world's music lovers a present: the kind of exact and exacting, passionate performance that is in his power to give, dedicated with love and devotion...
...Eighth Army "Desert Rats," a melting pot of Britons, Australians, Indians, Free French, New Zealanders and others, were never defeated in battle after Monty took command. His method sounded simple: refuse to move until every detail of the battle plan is in place; then slug it out to the finish-chiefly with line bucks but with an end run when necessary. To a flashy quarterback like Rommel, such tactics must have seemed relentlessly dull, relentlessly successful...