Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a Congressman was ready to join the cry for a general sales tax. But a new argument was used against it: that it would increase costs and force increases in OPA's price ceilings, starting a cycle of inflation. Other tax possibilities: > Corporation taxes, now 24% (normal) plus 6% or 7% surtax, may be upped to 30% plus more surtax. > A withholding tax on personal incomes may be levied. This would operate by a flat percentage deduction from salaries and wages. By levying a 1% tax on all incomes, at the source and without exemptions (by withholding money...
...this country is to continue its proper function," President Conant said, "It is important that academic degrees continue to signify the completion of a normal academic course either in college or a professional school. A special certificate will be given to all who leave college in good standing to join the armed forces, he said, but "the question of giving honorary degrees to those who have served in the Army and the Navy during the war may well be deferred, as in the last war, until the war is over...
...decision as to which students should continue their college instruction and which should join the armed forces was somewhat aided in England by governmental regulations specifying the number of men in just what ago group, who were needed in each branch of the service or in defense industry...
...more undergraduates this week joined the ranks of the students who are leaving college to enter the armed forces of the country. Bart Brockway '44, of Winthrop House, will leave after mid-years to join the air force, and Charles Palm '42 of Leverett House leaves immediately for the army...
...bill introduced in Congress by Massachusetts' Edith Nourse Rogers, with the approval of the War Department, will permit women to join the Army, provided only that they are 21 to 45 years old, in good health and of "excellent character." Like male soldiers, they will enlist for the duration plus six months...