Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, companies could compute their excess profits taxes by either of two methods: 1) choose a "normal" average profit during the base period years of 1936-39 and pay up to 95% tax, minus a 10% rebate, on all profits in excess of the average, or 2) take a "fair return" on their total capital investment. But use of the 1936-39 base discriminated against industries which were on the downswing of their particular business cycle in the base period, or had poured money into expansion and so had less than normal profits. Use of the investment base...
...chief college grade area represented were the "extroverted" B minus men. Those in the B rank sent the next largest delegation, followed by the B plus men, the C plus men, and the A minus men. Four squeaked by with C minus averages...
...August 1948 Communist hooligans raided the City Hall, which was in the Soviet sector. As they burst in on Reuter, he waved them away: "Can't you see I've got work to do?" When the City Hall finally became untenable, Reuter led the municipal administration (minus the Communists) to Western Berlin. The split of the city into East and West was now final. In the December 1948 elections in the Western sectors, the Socialists racked up a big victory and Reuter at last became officially the Oberbürgermeister. This time there was no question...
Since July 12, the Red Sox have been minus Ted Williams, out with an elbow injury. One day last week, Ted rapped a practice ball over the fence at Fenway Park. Said he: "It felt wonderful." But it would probably take more than the return of Ted Williams to catch the Tigers...
After losing the second, minus-17, when Reckitt himself shot a perfect game, Defender Hicks played the rubber game with a grim seriousness usually frowned on in the garden variety of croquet. Kneeling, crouching, lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...