Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats with one eye on the field and the other on the further section of the grandstand and retain one's composure or peace of mind. But it is extremely difficult to retain the aforesaid state when the enemy is desecrating the final station with foreign spikes while the local representatives, by an unkind turn of fate, remain fastened to the various way-stations along the route...
...mechanism of the projected tax shift will be for the Treasury to remit three quarters of the "rates" (taxes) now levied locally upon "productive industry employing manual labor." In the case of "actively producing farmlands" the Treasury will remit the whole of the local taxes, "They will be wiped clean off the slate!" exulted Mr. Churchill. Then he stated soberly that the "wiping" would cost the Treasury ?29,000,000 per year...
Significance. The immediate and specific features of the new Budget were all but ignored, last week, as Liberals and Laborites leaped up to attack Conservative Chancellor Churchill's program of shifting the local tax burdens of producers to distributors (and of course eventually to consumers...
Impartial observers thought that the Conservative Cabinet has hit upon a shrewd program, well calculated to catch votes, and probably destined to further the extremely basic interests of British industry and agriculture. The burden of the "rates" has not seldom been recklessly imposed by local authorities, and should properly become a matter of national concern. Finally the 1,000,000 workpeople who continue unemployed in Great Britain should be able to find many a job in the producing industries which Chancellor Churchill proposes to assist or partially subsidize. Therefore the votes of the unemployed and the votes of most laboring...
Drake. A wind full of the smell of rain, a long, sawtooth Iowa wind, blew into the faces of runners at Des Homes, caught at the legs of jumpers, tossed thrown javelins like feathers, so that no world's record and only one local record were broken in the Drake relays...