Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard buying move by cotton textile users fearful of a war famine and the possibility that Congress would raise the level of parity payments, up cotton's price. The battered grain markets, which had taken the worst beating during the panic, cast aside their month-old minimum price crutch, limped up a penny...
Contributions to the American National Red Cross War Relief Fund poured in, but at week's end the total was still far below the minimum $20,000,000 which Chairman Norman H. Davis said he must have. A Red Cross mercy ship, the 6,198-ton freighter McKeesport, loaded supplies, got ready to sail from New York City. Already hard-pressed, the American Friends Service Committee, which began operating in France 16 months ago caring for Spanish refugees, expanded its program, appealed for more funds. The American Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which already has no ambulances in Europe, recruited college...
...Chairman Robert L. Doughton's Ways & Means Committee proposed to give about 8,336,000 more U. S. citizens the opportunity of filing a Federal income tax return, to give some 2,000,000 of them an opportunity actually to pay. "Muley" Doughton & colleagues proposed to lower the minimum taxable income from $1,000 to $800, reducing the exemption for married citizens from $2,500 to $2.000. Effect of these and other changes in the Rearmament revenue measure which Chairman Doughton introduced last fortnight was to up its prospective annual yield (for the next five years) from...
...come from upped levies on distilled spirits ($91,000,000); beer ($46,000.000); gasoline (from 1? to 1 ½? per gallon, $112,000,000); cigarets (up 1? per pack, $77,000,000); amusements (tickets costing 31? or more will be taxed; present taxable minimum is 41?, $25,000,000); increases in most other excise taxes ($76,000,000); a 20% increase in the tax rates on stock transfers...
...reported, for example, that the turrets of the 70-ton German break-through tanks (which Germany got by her seizure of the Skoda munitions works in Czechoslovakia) are their vulnerable spot. The quality of German aircraft, the ability of German pilots (many of whom are sent up with minimum flight instruments, obliged to follow-their-leader) were not believed up to Allied par. Allies saw that inferior, half-trained troops were mixed in with the elite. For their own civilian Army ranks they now had a leavening of veterans returning from Dunkirk (see p. 24), whose three weeks in Flanders...