Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paying for the heavy burdens of wars, depressions, and welfare services, our taxes have been raised so high that they are constituting in themselves an influence which leads away from freedom and towards socialism. They restrict the ability of the citizen to spend as he pleases. Instead they channel a considerable part of his earnings into general welfare which he may or may not desire. Worse than this in the long run is the deadening hand of taxes on new enterprises and undertakings and the comparative strength they also give to old established businesses. Freedom to start something now with...
...figure--secured this fall without any formal membership drive--runs well ahead of last year's total. 1947 was the only year since before the war to produce a comparably high PBH membership...
Taxes, he said, are basically a means of redistributing production, but "the fact is we have reached the limits of redistribution of production so far as such redistribution is of any benefit whatsoever to the ordinary man. Taxes are already too high. For the benefit of the ordinary citizen we must find some way of reducing them or of giving advantages to those who are in a position to contribute to raising the standard of living of our people...
Never before in the history of the city have the reservoirs reached so low a state nor has consumption been so high. The daily consumption of 1,145,000,000 gallons disturbed officials so much that they have warned citizens to take every possible step to cut down on the amount of water they...
...cooperation with Phillips Brooks House, HDC will invite persons of high school age and older to view weeknight performances of the play from the balcony of Sanders Theater. Of the 700 seats in the balcony, 500 will be allocated at each performance to settlement house groups...