Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amendment would have brought the Treasury only about $50,000,000 more in revenues. But it stood to cost tax payers in those eight States from $15 (on $4,000 earned net income) to $10,941 (on $100,000) extra by making them pay the same sized taxes as people in other States. Against that proposal, their 16 Senators were ready to do battle to the death, vacation or no vacation...
Most of these were transports, repair ships, tugs, minesweepers, net layers, but they included two battleships which had been placed in commission (the 35,000-ton North Carolina and Washington), one battleship (South Dakota) launched, keels laid for two more as well as for 14 cruisers, 18 submarines, two aircraft carriers, 57 destroyers. Launched were one cruiser, eight subs, eight destroyers...
...Net effect of this escape was to make Argentines hopping mad at the German Embassy and all its works. Conservatives in the Chamber of Deputies hitherto had been leery of Investigator Damonte's work because it made political capital for the Radicals. Three days after Gottfried Sandstede's flight Raúl Damonte submitted a report signed by all members of his committee, including the Conservatives. Findings...
Left. By the late Ignace Jan Paderewski: a net estate of $35,000, in New York County. No will has yet been found...
...Net impression of the showings: this season's clothes are not much different from the best clothes of yesterday, have no new magic. On their first real test U.S. designers pass-with a somewhat better mark than B.M.I.'s tunesmiths did at the beginning of the radio war-but get no A for originality...