Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MARK A. COOPER...
Reave Thurso, with his mother and lamed brother Mark, lives on the coastal farm left by his father who killed himself when he could not make it pay. His limestone quarry buildings lie in decay; only a rusty cable, stretched across the canyon over the farm, hums in the air in memory...
...House voted (121-to-81) to boost this levy to 7%. Where the bill upped the maximum surtax from 20% to 40% on over $100,000, the House voted (153-to-87) to invoke again the Wartime scale of surtaxes, boosting the rate beyond the $100,000 mark to a maximum levy of 65% on incomes over $5,000,000. Next by a vote of 139-to-103 the coalition knocked out the provision to allow U. S. taxpayers deductions on income taxes paid to foreign governments...
Died. Harry Cameron Clemens, 66, actor, nephew of the late Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain); of heart disease; in Providence...
Known as R-B-M (Robertson-Bonded-Metal), the new steel is an amalgamation of three substances. Pure steel is coated with an alloy of tin, lead or zinc. The alloys are then heated to a temperature just beyond the plastic point but below the liquefaction mark. At this temperature felts can be cemented to the alloys. Upon cooling the felt adheres to the steel by means of the adhesive alloy. On the felt may be grafted further coatings-of asbestos, cellulose, imitations of wood, silk, jewels. The new metal may be rolled, drawn, pressed, corrugated. Chief difficulty...