Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taxes. No matter what the Treasury proposed, Congress was likely to pass a pay-as-you-go income tax plan, a sales tax, compulsory savings. It was more likely to increase taxes on individuals than to risk breaking the profit motive by heavier loads on business. But nobody expected Congress to vote the $16,000,000,000 of new revenues that the President called for. A likelier figure...
...fifth member of the halogen family: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine. Now the hypothetical eka-iodine (i.e., next to iodine) has finally been isolated in Bern, Switzerland. Thus Mendeléeff's table has now been realized, substantially as he predicted, with 92 elements (unless there are others heavier than uranium, which chemists think unlikely...
...have attempted," they say in their introduction, "to give some special meaning to parts of the book that have heretofore been mere tradition." In this attempt they have produced something that every student should be anxious to read, not only as he leaves Harvard, but as he takes on heavier responsibilities in a world...
...improved alfalfa resists wilt. Two brand-new types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved for use all through the U.S. ; this year it has extra importance because...
Skillful flyers were being developed over Burma. As in the Solomons and at sea, they were exacting a far heavier toll from the Japanese than the Japs from them...