Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free as the birds Who fly from one nest to a neighbour's When the cream in one cup turns to curds We seek a new field for our labours. We can lecture or flog a golf ball, We can drink with themenfolk in parity, Party politics we overhaul And, boy, how we organize charity...
...seats in the House of Commons, the Tories and their allies won 344, Labor sank to 277. The election jolted the huge party of Labor into a need for a painful, perhaps explosive overhaul of its leadership. It all but destroyed the last, best hope of the once-mighty Liberal Party, which won only six of the no seats it contested...
...elder brother Whitelaw ("Whitey"), 41, stepped upstairs to be chairman of the board (TIME, April 18), she insisted that her two sons would run the Trib as "a team." But the team plan vanished quickly. From the day he took over, Brownie Reid has set in motion the biggest overhaul the Trib has undergone in years. Whitey Reid is off in California on a long vacation...
Chile's government last week carried out a major overhaul of the taxes it imposes on the subsidiaries of the big U.S. companies (Anaconda and Kennecott) that mine 12% of the world's copper there. The new law, scrapping a legal tangle of income taxes, fixed selling prices and exchange-rate penalties that added up to 85% of operating income, provides for an ingenious graduated income tax in reverse. If production stays at present levels, the companies will pay 50% of operating income as their basic tax, plus 25% as a surtax. But the surtax will shrink with...
...operations, seven bakeries, nine laundries, a chain factory, a caustic-soda plant, four cement-mixing plants, a tire-retreading plant, two garden nurseries and four ice plants. The Navy, which has been manufacturing uniforms for years, has closed its clothing factory. It is bringing in more private yards to overhaul its ships, has boosted such contracts from $34 million in 1953 to $82 million in fiscal...