Word: gainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect for the $200-a-year man is therefore an income boost of slightly more than two and a half percent. As gross income rises, the kickback under HRI rises not only in absolute terms, but percentage-wise as well. At $5000 a year, the net gain in income would be somewhat less than four percent. At $10,000 it becomes almost six percent...
...harvest reaches bumper proportions. For the taxpayer with $100,000 of gross income, HRI will prove a net income boost of over twenty-five percent. The fortunate few who earn a half million every year will reap savings of more than seventy percent of current net income. The relative gain at the $500,000 level reaches almost thirty times the "relief" afforded the average laborer, even though the tax cut under the proposed bill falls from twenty percent to ten and a half percent for income in excess...
...liberal, on the other hand, would say: (1) to gain the support of the American people, the liberal movement must be "as pure as Caesar's wife: the masses of the American people don't like Communists and it is the pragmatic duty of the liberal to deter to this if he wishes to get anywhere at all: (2) from bitter experience, we (the ADA) can say that the Communist within the liberal organization is dangerous--he forces the liberal to keep one eyes on the "family silverware" even while the great liberal "battle at the gate" is raging...
Professor Cox pointed out that collective bargaining has had only a brief trial so far. As both sides gain greater experience in the techniques of bargaining, and as the "fire brands" who were driven to the fore by the era of labor turmoil, would give way to more responsible leaders, industrial conflicts would be resolved more easily, he predicted...
...years of undefeated wrestling teams at Milton Academy went by the boards last Saturday when a powerful Yardling grappling team took six of eight bouts to gain a decisive 20 to 8 victory over the prep-schoolers and hand them their first defeat in over fifty meets. Ray Rogers, an ace grappler at Milton last year, captained the Freshmen in their first official meet of the season on the Milton Academy mats...