Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with dry-cargo tonnage (see p. 10 ), the lonely sea miles of distance offset this huge preponderance of tonnage. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) alone operates qr controls some 2,200,000 tons, nearly six times the entire Jap tanker tonnage (430,000), and twice the combined German, Italian and Jap tanker fleets. But these and other Allied tankers were built for relatively short, peacetime routes: from the Near East and Black Sea to Europe via the Mediterranean, from Gulf and Caribbean ports to Bayonne and Liverpool. By last year Britain, whose pre-war tanker fleet was over three million tons...
This proviso, however, was offset by recommendations and the setting up of machinery for the prompt interchange of strategic materials because of the "imperative character and extreme urgency of the existing situation"-in effect a freeze-out of whatever Axis trade remained...
...mounting war production has more than offset the curtailment of civilian output in the total production picture. Even stopping the auto assembly lines will be partially offset by increases in military trucks...
...levied. This would operate by a flat percentage deduction from salaries and wages. By levying a 1% tax on all incomes, at the source and without exemptions (by withholding money from payrolls), Congress could raise about 560 million dollars. Great probability: a 5% withholding tax as an offset against the following year's income taxes-or even, perhaps, in addition to present levies. > Mandatory joint returns, one of the big income-tax loopholes will probably be enacted, getting the Treasury some $325,000,000 to $500,000,000 more-a provision aimed at the eight States which have community...
Coach Earl Brown sought to offset the Indian's advantage in height when he started three of his biggest boys. Six feet, three inch "Bunks" Burditt faced Jim Olsen, Dartmouth's six feet, five inch center, and Big Ed Roth-schild and 6 feet, 2 1/4 inch Don Lutz took the guard posts...