Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stunner, in several ways. It was a beauty for balance; Hugh Dalton had achieved a surplus of about ?270,000,000 ($1,080,000,000). It had an unmistakably Laborite look in keeping income taxes high on the rich and the middle class, while easing those of the low-income group. But it had one monstrous feature: the duty on tobacco was upped by 50%. That meant that a package of 20 cigarets, which cost 47? on Budget Day, cost 67? the day after...
...solace of a cut in income taxes which brought them back to about the 1940 level. The basic rate of nine shillings to the pound (45%) remained. But by lifting the basic exemptions and increasing allowances for dependents, the budget took income tax entirely off about 750,000 low-income Britons. Under the new schedule, a British couple with two children will pay no tax unless they earn more than $28 a week, and they would not pay the 45% rate unless they earned more than $40 a week. The change left middle-bracket taxes murderously high. Example: a married...
...Low scorers, with 79, were Bill Rickenbacker, the home team's number three man, and LeBel, Bowdoin's top-ranker and Maine Amateur Open Champ...
...yard high hurdles (trials) 3:00 100-yard dash (trials) 3:10 One-mile run 3:20 440-yard run (two final heats) 3:30 120-yard high hurdles (final) 3:40 100-yard dash (final) 3:50 Two-mile run 16-pound shot put 4:00 220-yard low hurdles (trials) 4:10 220-yard dash (trials) 4:20 880-yard run 4:30 220-yard low hurdles (final) 4:40 220-yard dash (final...
Expressing an opinion voiced by many merchants in the Square, Cahaly declared, "The price cut must start at the source, from manufacturers and processors, because retailers' margins, especially in the food field, are now too low for any price reduction to be possible...