Word: gimmick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proud, precise Sperry Corp., manufacturer of gyroscopes and fantastically complex instruments for war and peace, had special reason for pride this week: Army authorities permitted it to release details and photographs of its Automatic Computing Sight-the magic gimmick which goes a long way toward explaining the phenomenal defensive strength of U.S. bombers against enemy fighter planes...
...rich cream-colored Harvard classmate of Big Boy's and saw a libidinous so-called voodoo dance. In England Longstreet talked to a nice tart and a nice Lord. In Paris there was a countess who admired gangster slang: "What do you know, you mug, about this gimmick?" In Germany he saw the old vicious guns of World War I scrapped in a field near Kiel, read in the papers of an America no American has ever seen, and talked to a brave old pastor who was ''headed as sure as Christ Himself" for a concentration camp...
...excess profits is taxexempt. Small corporations may carry over unused portions of their excess-profits credit from year to year, but large ones (earning over $25,000) may not. Partly exempt are the profits of mining companies, airlines. Scattered through the bill is many another exemption, qualification, abstruse gimmick. Finally, cases of "abnormalities" may be adjudicated by the Treasury's Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Since such "abnormalities" are not defined, the Wall Street Journal foresaw that corporations would pay the tax only under protest. Under such a bill, "abnormalities" will be easy for any corporation to find...