Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beware of Pity." The same indictment cannot be applied to the fine picture that now and then rears up out of Hollywood's commercial quicksand. "The Informer," "Emile Zola," "Ninotchke," or "The Good Earth," support this view. American film makers have many times examined foreign cultures on an intelligent level, or have sounded American short-comings as in "The Grapes of Worth," with more than commercial success...
...time when corporation profits are so high that stockholders can hardly believe the figures on their dividend checks, it is difficult to imagine to what heights profits would soar if corporations were relieved of any substantial part of their tax "burden." In view of the present high level of national income the argument that industry needs the additional incentive that can be obtained by tax cuts appears more laughable than logical...
...fear of the Russian "menace" are the ones who are crying loudest for tax relief. Now is the time, if ever, to pay off some of the public indebtedness. The United States can reduce its debt and support the Marshall Plan only if taxes are maintained at the present level. In fact it might even be a wise move to raise them...
...Cataclysmic Consequences." Yet most businessmen and economists were more noticeably worried last week than they had been in a long while. R. H. Macy's President Jack Straus called on all businessmen to "fight for a lower level of prices." Murray Shields, vice president of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., declared that "recent developments have increased the risk that we shall experience an economic setback." Said the Federal Reserve Board's Menc S. Szymczak: the U.S. is now facing "the cataclysmic consequences of runaway inflation...
...Except for street-level displays...