Word: layings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running at the rate of $215 billion a year-a new record. Production lines were humming. There were no critical consumers' shortages anywhere. People were already getting used to such products of the postwar dream world as television and home laundries. One U.S. steamship company was ready to lay down the largest, most luxurious passenger ship in U.S. maritime history; the new Ford would soon be unveiled...
Once for All? The incentives for capital lay more in what Cripps refrained from saying than in what he said. He did not (as many investors and businessmen feared he would) increase the tax on business profits, put a ceiling on dividends, or tax capital gains. But he had a shocker for those who live on investment incomes-a special tax on rents, dividends and interest, which Cripps promised would apply for only one year. This "capital contribution," graduated up to 50%, on top of the high regular income tax rates, would send many an investor's total...
...town. On one side of his doorway he pasted a colored drawing of the Statue of Liberty. But in place of the goddess' face and diadem were the features and military cap of Douglas MacArthur. At the figure's feet, in a litter of skulls and bones, lay a trampled black dragon, "Anti-Democracy," with features unmistakably resembling Joseph Stalin's. Oda's latest ode was tacked to the opposite doorway...
...clotting crowd tore off his clothes, pounded him with shoeshine boxes snatched from ragged urchins, kicked his face and head into a bloody pulp. Then they knotted a tie around his neck and dragged him six blocks. All afternoon his body lay in the gutter before the Presidential Palace while the rain water made little whirlpools around his bare heels. Gaitán had been picked up and carried to the Clínica Central...
...another part of Paris, a countess with a centuries-old name expressed it differently. She lay back in a deep armchair and waved a delicate hand in a vague, tired gesture: "Whether I am better off? Ma pauvre amie! A year ago I still had my servants-I can't afford them today. I go to market myself, line up in the queue and join the discussion of the housewives about carrots. There were times in my life when I didn't even know what carrots were...