Word: hardships
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...Treasury is considering a plan by which the taxpayer would be called upon to pay taxes on both his 1942 and '43 incomes this year. To reduce the hardship of this, the Treasury suggested that rates on 1942 income be put back to the rates and exemptions prevailing in 1941. This would mean that the average taxpayer would have to pay nearly twice the amount he would normally pay this year. On a $20,000 income, the federal tax alone, not considering a probable increase in rates, would be 58 percent. If the government does feel that such high taxes...
...Bertrand Russell has discontinued his lectures" and that the contract was broken. Russell last week sued Barnes for the $24,000 the philosopher was to receive through 1945. The Philadelphia Record suggested that Dr. Barnes "subsidize Russell so that a controversy enjoyed by all might be continued without undue hardship upon one of the principals." Growled Barnes: "The suggestion may be practicable...
...difficult may be the post war years. In this period you will need courage, endurance, patience (above all, patience) to see it through; you will need an understanding of what it means to work in close cooperation with other men. The fortitude, loyalty and stead-fastness that come from hardship and danger serve the erstwhile soldier well even in civilian clothes...
Leeway factors to this rule are allowed to cover particular hardship cases. The order does not become effective until the second quarter which means that most overstocked merchants will have a chance to balance inventories without costly dumping. With this flexibility, the trade believes that it has one of the fairest orders to come out of Washington...
Said his superior, Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt, Commander of the Western Defense Command and the Fourth Army: "That operation . . . was completed within the designated time, without mischance, with minimum hardship and almost without incident...