Word: means
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though some legislators pretended that the new law would mean the end of Michigan's troubles, most thought otherwise. Lawyers are bound to argue that the use tax is really nothing more than an increase in the sales tax, which the Michigan constitution places at a maximum of 3%. The "solution" could amount to no final fiscal solution for Michigan-but very probably it had solved once and for all the G.O.P.'s problem of Soapy Williams...
MISSILE-INCENTIVE contract at cost of $29,209,851 was won by General Electric Co. to build Thor IRBM nose cones. First Air Force incentive contract in missile field will mean bigger profits if G.E. effects production savings and exceptional product performance...
...output of a steel mill the size of Republic's 9,500-man Cleveland plant; foreign steel mills in 1959 had already sold U.S. customers more steel than in any full year in history. Republic Steel's Chairman Charles M. White warned that the walkout may well mean the permanent loss of part of the domestic steel markets to foreign producers "at the expense of the industry and steelworkers...
...burns a brush fence and frees the mustangs. That should be enough to make bullets fly, but there is a special ethic in this far, far western. In battle, as in love, no one shoots to kill. "You could shoot Blanding," Lark urges Stanley. "Oh, I don't mean kill him. You could just shoot his leg off." Bloodlessly the climax peters out, and not even wild horses could drag much response out of anyone but a dyed-in-the-saddle Grey...
...invested in inventories or plants. Industries have piled inventories so high (adding at an annual rate of $10.4 billion in the second quarter alone) that economists feel they will now begin to channel their funds into new plants to meet consumers' rising demands. That does not mean that the inventory boom has spent itself; inventories have moved up close to the peak level of January 1957, but sales have moved up even faster...