Word: gummed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...including $1,322,900,000 in new corporate taxes, $1,152,000,000 in additional income taxes, $151,900,000 more in gift and estate taxes, the balance in new excise taxes. At the last minute the committee lopped off $26,100,000 worth of taxes on candy, chewing gum, metal signs and cutlery, replaced them with other levies designed to bring in at least $50,000,000. The new additions, and what they are expected to yield...
Snapping his bubble gum between his teeth, Knifey told the cops: "Sure, I killed 'em. I shot 'em all. And I don't feel one way or the other about it, good...
...Arthur H. du Grenier Co. of Haverhill, Mass, (vending machines for candy, gum, cigarets) has had to cut production 30-50%, employment one-third, not only because of the die-casting shortage but for lack of steel and of cobalt nickel for the magnet that rejects phony coins. Du Grenier has no defense business. Says Treasurer Bouchard: "We are very much worried about the future...
...able to gnaw the Axis, steeltough jaws are necessary and not rosy ones used to chewing gum. If you only knew how good and beautiful are the children of Rome and Berlin and how much poetry there is in the youth of Europe, then you wouldn't listen to your and our enemies...
...union leader last week made news by marching through a picket line. It was no slip of the foot. John P. Frey, 70-year-old arch-conservative of the A.F. of L.'s conservative hierarchy, had said he would, and by gum he did. The pickets were A.F. of L. machinists who had shut down eleven San Francisco shipyards in the midst of a $500,000,000 Naval building program and earned the combined wrath of Government and labor officials. But the violation of the picket line by white-haired John Frey did not break the "outlaw" strike. Nonstriking...