Word: overtax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concession to Industry. Year ago the Budget of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Chamberlain, carried what afterward were considered clauses "tending to overtax the British munitions industry" or "soak the profiteers"-depending on one's point of view. Since nearly every country has laid plans to soak wartime profiteers, what proceeded to happen in London last week may be of wide significance. The new Simon Budget not only does not further soak any presumptive British profiteers but actually contains a clause enabling British industrialists to make such heavy charge-offs for "depreciation" that in effect industry received...
...Hall slices college admissions to House capacities, the House Masters might well allow college dormitory men to eat in the dining halls. Assignment of these outcasts to the house dining halls would mean only an additional twenty men to each one, and, according to University authorities, this would not overtax their facilities. Leading a mouse-like existence, a lonely round from one hash house to another, these excluded men appreciate more than anyone else the opportunities offered by the Houses simply because they have missed them. Life on this fringe of the University's social center could be made much...
...Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army prayed. Mayor Cermak rumbled a speech of welcome which soon descended to a partisan harangue. Then Senator Barkley, tall, paunchy, all in white, launched vigorously into his keynote address (see p. 12). Most delegates, mindful of the fight to come, did not overtax their lungs or palms with applause...