Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiar with the anti-inflation argument for a general sales tax. I am also familiar with the uncontrovertible fact that the sales tax is not an equitable tax, that it hits hardest those who can least afford to pay, those individuals whose standard of living is already so low that I, for one, am ashamed to call it American...
...Register: "War is just as bloody now-in spite of wishful thinking to the contrary-as it was in the First World War when men by the millions were mowed down by machine-gun fire as they went over the top." And the reason U.S. losses are still so low is that the body of the Army has not yet engaged the enemy...
...streets. Every few hours Moscow heard the clump clump clump of marching feet. Often the marchers were new recruits-old men, young men, women-getting their initial training. Sometimes they were labor battalions. One afternoon there was the groan of airplane motors overhead and 50 huge black bombers sped low over the city, heading north. Unlike London, free from the pressure of bombing raids, and the U.S., stewing about inflation, a sense of grim reality hung over the heart of Russia...
...this makes it imperative to tap new sources of scrap. But the Government is still loth to be anywhere near tough enough about requisitioning hoarded industrial scrap-unused machinery, etc., that low-prioritied industries feel is worth more to them than any kind of reasonable price bonus. It still hopes to get the added scrap through patriotism rather than pressure or price. Last week it launched the biggest hoop-la scrap-collection drive ever, through a new American Industries Salvage Committee. U.S. industry anted up $2,000,000 for paid advertising, sought to get 3,000,000 added tons from...
...have learned to take such incidental orchestration in their stride. But at Vancouver B.C.'s open-air pavilion, Baritone John Charles Thomas encountered one alfresco sound too many-a persistent bullfrog in a nearby pond. Every time Baritone Thomas began to sing, the bullfrog answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next song, a beater was delegated to quell the disturber. Thomas lifted up his voice, the bullfrog chimed in. The beater cracked the water with his stick. The startled bullfrog shut...