Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer!" Beamishly Mr. Chamberlain announced, and as his words were uttered they instantly became effective throughout Great Britain, that the nuisance tax on cheap cinema seats is no more, pay raises go to the Army, the Navy and the Civil Service, the tax on the first ?135 ($675) of lower-bracket incomes is cut from two shillings threepence to one and sixpence in the pound, exemptions for additional children are raised and taxes go up only on things like "heavy oil." In fine Chamberlain fettle, the Chancellor closed his budget amid laughter and cheers. "I do not claim that...
...Scientists told off to help fishermen in the Barents Sea invented electric fish nets. The scheme is to lower a network of wires into the water from the fishing boats, pass a current through the water from wire to wire, creating an electric wall which the fish will not pass. The catch is brought in by opening a rift in the electric wall through which the fish swin into an ordinary...
Almost coincidentally with Patriots Day, the bill requiring that all teachers take an oath to support the Constitution passed its third hearing in the lower house and is now to be sent to the upper chamber of the state legislature. This is proof positive of the legislators' patriotism and 100 per cent Americanism--at last to the American Legion, Elks and similar organizations who have waged the fight for its passage. It would be almost unfair to remind them in the glow of their present partial success that patriotism in days past meant staunch support of American traditions such...
Thomas W. Stephenson '37, arguing the Crimson case from another angle, pointed out that unstable economic conditions abroad would be reflected here by chaos. "The immigration of cheap foreign labor which must result from a lower tariff can have no other effect than to lower our standard of living," he said...
Thousands of pages have been written about Hydro, most of them dedicated to the proposition that this classic example of public ownership does-or does not- sell power as cheaply as could a private company. There is little argument about actual domestic rates: they are lower, with rare exceptions, than any iri the U. S. The squabble is over technicalities like the question of whether Hydro favors domestic customers at the expense of commercial and industrial users; or what adjustment should be made for Hydro's low taxes. Most comparisons of Hydro's rates with U. S. rates...