Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take over $5,200,000 worth of the estate, thus exempting that much from death duties. But by law such gifts must be made at least five years before the donor's death, and the duke's heart attack occurred just three months short of the fateful limit...
...long birthday cake modeled after the ship. Earlier, he told reporters that the state of the nation, despite threats of war and inflation, is "the best in history." He reported that his health is "fundamentally good," then qualified his diagnosis wryly: "After you pass the scriptural limit of three score and ten years, your longevity depends mainly on pills...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS will dry up soon. Senate Finance Committee approved measure to end write-offs altogether by Dec. 31, 1959, and to limit them until then to radically new or specialized production or research facilities for military services...
...Chen-Yah, Hong Kong publisher, speaking on the attitudes of overseas Chinese, forsaw a decline in communist sentiments and "an eventual defeat of communism in China and South-East Asia as a whole." At present however, he admitted there is "a limit to what the overseas Chinese can do "to bring this about...
...INTEREST RATES on U.S.-insured mortgages may soon be raised to 5¼% from 5%. FHA also intends to lower mortgage down payments later this year (to $300 from $700 on a $10,000 house), limit discounts on FHA-backed mortgages to 2½% of par value...