Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bills introduced by Republicans would prohibit the suspension of drivers' licenses on a first offense for speeding. Another would authorize restoration of suspended licenses in "hardship cases." These would include licenses of truck drivers and others who make a living by driving...
Since all the Department's courses are somewhat specialized, May said, the Generals will probably require additional outside reading by most students. Although he realized this might be considered a hardship by this year's junior class, he noted a compensating element in the fact that students will only have to answer questions from two of the areas in Part II, rather than from three, as before...
...probe was not likely to prove a real hardship for the ex-President. His children have already reached Paris, and he is expected to set up housekeeping with them there within the month. Bank accounts in Boston, Miami, Paris and Geneva should enable him to live in the manner he has become accustomed...
...Senator Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says that there has been a temporary loss of $5 billion in revenue since Korea because of defense fast tax write-offs. But many economists do not think that accelerated depreciation for peacetime industry would be a hardship for the Government. During the past six years, despite the fact that industry was granted tax write-offs on $37 billion in plants, the increased production and business activity actually boosted the Government's overall take in corporate taxes from $11 billion a year to $20 billion a year...
...cutbacks were not made in the name of new look strategy, but of old-fashioned hardship. "If the burden is too great to carry, We cannot go on carrying it," said Chancellor of the Exchequer Macmillan. His remarks were directed primarily at thriving Germany, which is spending only a modest $280 million on its lagging defense, and has threatened to stop all support payments for the four British divisions in Germany after May 1957. The British taxpayer, Macmillan made clear, was fed up with Germany's letting Britain carry Germany's defenses. Since Germany had to confess that...