Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made. Ambassador Straus wrote a codicil to his will in which he withdrew these benefactions in these words: "The present Federal and State estate tax laws impose substantially increased tax burdens upon the estates of decedents and may under certain conditions cause undue hard ship and financial sacrifice and loss result ing from untimely sale and liquidation of assets of estates to provide for the pay ment of such taxes. The increased estate taxes upon the estates of decedents are devoted in large part to Governmental so cial programs. Under the circumstances now existing, I deem it advisable to cancel...
Despite the quintet of goals the team's passing and shooting was slow and inaccurate with the resultant loss of numerous other scoring opportunities...
...Just how many bombs went off nobody knew. Five or six unexploded bombs were discovered. One bomb wrecked part of a hotel. Another blew up the chief water-main serving the northern part of the city. Fifteen fires by explosions started in various places. Bombed and burned with a loss of 1,000,000 pesos was Parsons Hardware Co., only a quarter of a mile from the great tinder box of the President's Malacañan Palace. Police with riot guns raced through the city trying by a frantic display of energy to conceal the fact that Benigno...
...publicize this observance the National Geographic Society issued a "bulletin" from which it appeared that Ahun, a town of 2,000 souls in central France, has had no fire for 600 years; that Holland, in which most buildings are of brick, suffers a smaller annual fire loss than Cleveland. The Society spoke favorably of such modern control methods as fireproof wood (TIME, Jan. 20) and the copper-tube detector which has been installed in the White House, the National Archives Building, the restored colonial edifices of Williamsburg, Va., banks, museums, warehouses, art galleries, libraries, laundries. In this device, concealed...
Last year over 18 men reported the first day and three years ago the turnout exceeded 45. The competition has not been changed in any particular from previous years, and football men are at a loss to account for the shortage of Freshmen...