Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down on Miami Dock Owner Harold E. Manning, who explained that for some time he had been in the business of stocking, chartering and selling yachts that well-heeled Miamians had given to the CAP as a tax dodge. Under prevailing tax rates, an upper-bracket yacht owner can often save more on his income tax by donating a well-depreciated business yacht than by selling it on the market...
...since mid-1949-laid on the line once again a scandalously serious problem of the U.S.'s crowded air space. In clear weather, military planes fly indiscriminately on and through civil airways under Visual Flight Rules. In areas of heavy traffic, civilian airliners, even in clear weather, more often fly under Instrument Flight Rules-continually tracked and controlled by Civil Aeronautics Administration ground stations. In the final analysis, the lack of military-civilian coordination was responsible for the Maryland crash just as it was responsible for the ramming of a United Air Lines DC-7 by an Air Force...
...Dangerous Delusion. The Russians are often incorrigible copycats: if they want something, but do not want to go to the effort of designing one of their own, they merely copy it (the Russian cash register, based on early National Cash Registers, even has National's own seal design on the back). But in the areas that matter to them, they stand on their own, and nothing bothers Western scientists more than the widespread delusion that Russia got where it is today solely because of its captured German scientists and its stolen secrets...
...often as dogs appear, and it is quite often, they never convey meaning so effectively as when balanced by rabbits. Normally, rabbits are meek, small, soft and vegetarian, considered harmless by most (Australians to the contrary), and virtually unknown in literature. They have large ears which stick up--a help in finding a rabbit in a crowd--and small, happy tails. Through no fault of their own they bear the standard of sexual fertility--an aspect of prime importance in determining their role as symbol...
...group, including seven dishwashers and two truckers, stated that Kanz refused to give nights-off for graduation or school proms, and that he often forced them to work on Saturdays or Sundays. They also blamed Kanz for playing favorites, and for forcing people to work even when they were injured...