Word: furse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good Timing. As it stands now, the bill would end excise taxes completely on more than 1,000 items, among them the 10% retail levies on jewelry, furs, cosmetics, luggage and handbags, as well as manufacturer's taxes at varying rates on everything from business machines to cameras, radios...
$4 Billion Cut. The Administration's broadened plans to ask Congress for a major reduction in excise taxes will also lower prices for hundreds of consumer goods. Last week President Johnson announced that he will send to Congress a recommendation to cut excise taxes by roughly $4 billion over...
Although they sent home a fortune in furs, the colonists were repaid largely with official indifference and hostility. "It is for traders to traffic where they please," pronounced the Empress Catherine. "I will furnish no men, ships, or money." Not until 1810, nearly 70 years after Russian eyes first beheld...
"I am a self-made personality," she says. The product of a straight bourgeois background, she has propelled herself to the point where she is now the wife of a fashionable Roman architect and mother of a three-year-old boy ("An earthquake; he's so handsome"), can afford...
The two women are portrayed with equal skill. Lila Kedrova plays the old courtesan. Draped in bitten furs and clutching a parasol, she is grotesque, pitiful--and yet you can believe that once she was beautiful enough to charm all those admirals. Irene Pappas plays the young widow with the...