Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor as a whole does not realize that heavy war taxes have already frozen the profits of most businesses below the prewar level. It does not realize that heavier individual surtaxes have cut into the spendable income of management to a point where many executives are going into debt to meet their current expenses. Management on its side is growing increasingly bitter over the refusal of Congress to impose any appreciable tax on the $35,000,000,000 increase in the earnings of labor since 1939. The wind has been sown, and Judge Rosenman has a man-sized job ahead...
...Germans now use heavier tanks than they used before, and armored trains on the Russian model...
Pondering reasons for the drive's widespread flop. Ickes snapped: "We suspect that people are hoarding rubber and maybe even people in official life are hoarding." His companion. Bill Boyd of the Petroleum Industry War Council, shook his head, too: "If there had been heavier hitting on the part of the public...
...Also building (for commissioning in 1943-44) are six more battleships, the Iowas. Monsters of 45,000 tons, they reportedly will have more than 35 knots of speed, heavier protection than the 27-knot Carolinas...
...killer of U.S. babies is whooping cough, which takes a heavier toll than scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and infantile paralysis combined. Last week, doctors at the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City heard reports on 1) a new way to prevent the disease in newborn infants; 2) the serious mental effects of whooping cough...