Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone who eats, drinks, smokes, dresses, drives to town or goes out on the town pays the taxes, which generally vary from 5% to 10%. Among the taxed items: household appliances, cameras, sporting goods, autos and auto parts, stock transfers, motor fuel and lubricants, telephone bills, office machines, electric light bulbs, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pens, cabaret tabs, theater and sports admissions. As a means of regulation, as much as a source of revenue, heavy taxes are also slapped on gambling, pinball machines, tobacco and alcohol: $10.50 per gallon of liquor, $9 per barrel of beer, 8? per pack...
Soumialot. But one column was ambushed 30 miles south of the city, and the other, which was to have landed from Lake Tanganyika, was held up by bad weather and lack of fuel...
...suit. Cyprus itself had a breather. Though still calling down curses on Turkey for its recent air strikes, Makarios relaxed somewhat the blockade thrown around the Turkish Cypriot communities. For the first time in two weeks, running water was restored to the huddled refugees in Ktima, and badly needed fuel was delivered to Turkish Cypriot bakeries in Nicosia...
...bakeries in Nicosia have closed down for lack of fuel. The wells supplying 3,000 Turkish Cypriots surrounded in Ktima are drying up, and a U.N. tank truck was barred from entering the town with emergency water supplies. In many parts of the island fruit and vegetables are rotting in the fields...
...also working to keep prices in line. U.S. factories are still operating at 83% of capacity, which rules out pressures for price increases from over-demand. Industry has either been able to absorb its costs through higher efficiency, or else-as in the case of the battle for the fuel market among oil, coal and gas -is caught in the kind of competition that produces price cuts. Besides, prosperous consumers tend to trade up to the better models that produce more money for manufacturers and thus reduce the need for price increases...