Word: lushness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of world depression and unemployment, Irish finances are lush. Two months ago Finance Minister Ernest Blythe proudly announced in the Dail that the Irish budget balanced easily, that the income tax had exceeded the estimate by ?250,000 (TIME...
...lush condition of the Irish Free State's finances was not arrived at without squeezing the taxpayers. Its income tax (three shillings in the pound) is almost as great as Britain's (four shillings sixpence), though its surtax is approximately 50% less. At the same time that Minister Blythe announced his surplus he announced a tax on gasoline of 8 cents a gallon, increased the entertainment tax on talking films to 6 cents a foot. Indirectly he increased the troubles of President Gerardo Machado of Cuba by raising the customs duty on sugar to 2 cents a pound...
German electric companies could afford this. It has been a lush year for their stockholders. German General Electric recently declared a 7% dividend. Last week Siemens-Schuckert declared 7½%. Potent Siemens & Halske, nearly 20% of whose stock is owned by U. S. individuals and investment trusts, cut a 14% melon...
Several months ago, Dr. John Kunkel Small of the New York Botanical Garden took a train ride through the Mississippi delta, looked out of the window with his knowing botanical eye at the lush growth of the southern swamps. Suddenly he saw something which made him want to stop the train-a swamp full of giant iris such as a Paul Bunyan might have planted. Soon as possible Dr. Small went back to the spot with two botanical friends. The iris grew seven feet tall, like young trees. They bore immense rainbow colored blossoms. The botanists floundered with difficulty about...
Luana. One proverb of show-business says that first-rate plays become second-rate musicomedies.? Oldtime theatregoers who remember that lush melodrama The Bird of Paradise?in which Lenore Ulric, Laurette Taylor, Lewis Stone, Guy Bates Post once took part?did not find Arthur Hammerstein's florid musical adaptation, Luana, as successful entertainment as its progenitor. Tediously faithful to the original plot in which a princess of the Sandwich Islands marries a young U. S. doctor, only to lose him and destroy herself in a volcano as a sacrifice to her people, Producer Hammerstein has given his show...