Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This season some 2,000 U.S. cities and towns, with audiences totaling close to 3,000,000 people, have bought their music on the painless, pay-as-you-go packaging basis known as the "organized-audience plan." Two giant A & Ps of music, Community Concert Service and Civic Concert Service, handle 90% of the bookings; some 2,500 artists, separately, in ensembles and in orchestras, crisscross the nation to serve up the music...
What Are the Chances? Even its most ardent advocates do not contend that a sales tax could ever be a substitute for income or other taxes. But as a relatively painless revenue producer in inflationary times, it cannot be beaten...
Unimpressed by the Tories, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent suavely made his case for a painless policy. He argued that conscription now might drain men off from what he said is Canada's primary defense mission-production of arms and munitions for herself and her allies. Europe, he said, can provide soldiers more efficiently than Canada, but nobody could surpass Canadian industrial efficiency...
...posture of readiness was over $15 billion-and every dollar that was not recovered in taxes added to the pressure on prices. But taxes were considered politically painful. Last week, with his request for a modest $5 billion in new taxes, Harry Truman made it all seem as painless as possible...
...slow-motion probing of the Administration for a set of 'painless' controls' has turned the steel market into a whirlpool of frenzy and uncertainty," said Iron Age last week. "The race for steel [is] a mad scramble, with no holds barred...