Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baruch can be powerfully simple and direct, but he is a person of extraordinary sophistication, a master of charmingly indirect talk which suddenly opens to leave an inference the size of a bomb crater. He has spent a great part of his years holding his tongue. Henderson is a great babbler who wakes up sounding his "A" and holds it all day, roaring through his work in a rich torrent of cuss words, grunts and bellows, like a bull of Bashan...
...usual foresight. Ready was the Congressional tax expert, round-faced Colin F. Stam, with a much less direct approach to the voters' wallets. Mr. Stam brought in a list which tapped the middle-incomers much more lightly by income taxes but clipped everyone much more thoroughly via indirect or nuisance taxes (see Table, p. 22). True, Mr. Stam's income taxes do not pretend to bring the U.S. in as much new revenue as the Treasury's ($1.1 billion against $1.5 billion), but there again Congress had the comfortable feeling that the Treasury's estimates...
...third important German loss since outbreak of World War II. Start of the war forced abandonment of the Nazi transatlantic service to South America. Last summer Colombia (with U.S. urging) nationalized the 5,175-mile, German-affiliated Scadta line. Chief lines still operating in South America with direct or indirect German connections: Brazil's Condor (10,000 miles extending into Argentina and Chile), Vasp (1,200 miles) and Varig (940 miles); Bolivia's Lloyd Aero Boliviano (3,000 miles); Ecuador's Sedta (900 miles...
...Direct leakage of food is not an important issue. Indirect benefits to Germany are enormous. According to William Agar of Columbia "ten shiploads of wheat, say 50,000 tons, would release about 187,000 tons of potatoes, from which the Germans could make 17,000 tons of alcohol . . . enough fuel for 500 planes to raid London nightly for two months...
...committee called for clarification of such omnibus phrases as "notwithstanding the provisions of any other laws, or otherwise dispose of," "any other direct or indirect benefit," and other phrases of a similar nature which are included in the bill...