Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stable businesses, and inefficient producers, the House committee's proposal was more lenient than the Treasury's, for its higher excess-profits tax (94% compared to 75%) penalizes efficient businesses that are getting ahead in the world and its lower normal and surtaxes (40% compared with 55%) lighten the relative tax load on businesses that are sot in their ways. The proposal of the National Association of Manufacturers, for a 100% excess-profits levy (TIME, March 23), was even more calculated to freeze efficiency and competition out of industry...
...Douglas MacArthur and the staff which had come with him from the Philippines. As soldiers, they might agree that nothing more could have been done to save Bataan. As men, they were bound to wish that more had been done. Their uncertain status in Australia did nothing to lighten their gloom...
...Bingham emphasized that this spring would inevitably be a transition period, during which adjustments to the tremendous additional burden placed on the athletic facilities would have to be made. The decision to exempt members of this year's Freshman Class from the conditioning exercises was taken in order to lighten the burden on these facilities, he declared...
Indicating that the cases above mentioned and a few others were the exception rather than the rule, the volunteer officials who did the real dirty work yesterday and Sunday said the average registrant was eager to do his bit to lighten the burden of enrolling 7,000,000 men on the government's books...
Because the present system of restricted inter-House meals has received so much criticism from the students, and in order to lighten the burden of bookkeeping, the committee of House Masters has adopted an experimental plan which permits unlimited visiting in other dining halls, Dean Hanford announced last night...