Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Normal Tax. Personal exemptions of $1,000 for single persons, $2,500 for married couples, $400 for dependents (no change). Normal tax: 4% flat (old law: 4% on the first $4,000 and 8% on larger amounts). This deduction in the normal tax is, however, offset...
While attempts have been made to offset this administrative load during recent years, this situation still exists in many courses. In these classes which are just too large for individual attention, the instructor cannot aid a man by reading his papers. Time which might well be spent in investigating one's subject or in preparing material for the next day's classes is sacrificed to the all-important question of whether a paper should receive...
...know Cord." Fact: Day after Cord announced he had bought New York Shipbuilding Corp. for $2,000,000, that company got contracts for some $38,000,000 worth of U. S. war-boats. Fact: Cord's bids were doubtless lowest but-Probable fact: Cord more than offset any operating losses by the resultant boom in New York Shipbuilding's stock. This operation is what prompted La Motte Turck Cohu, whom Cord ousted as president of Aviation Corp., to growl: "The air transport business will be torn away from the pioneer operators . . . and put into the hands of speculators...
...insufferable little snobs of our offspring-not through the influence of the teachers but through the influence of other class-conscious pupils-and what is more intolerable (and intolerant) than a child-snob? But I would risk that (and it is a mighty unworthy parent who is unable to offset Phariseeism at home) if I could make sure of securing for my children the influence of teachers to whom their job is not just a pay envelope and a step higher on the ladder of respectability than the rung to which they were accustomed. But we, like so many others...
...well-meaning, self-important hick from Azusa, who discovers life and love in Greater Los Angeles. Side-kick Tracy is as tough and tight-lipped as ever, and seems just the kind of trouble-shooter you'd like to have fix your worst enemy's telephone. The pair offset each other nicely, and one is very glad that the girls they fall in love with are room-mates, because double weddings, even by a J.P., are such...