Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations on your Rivera article, on every phase of it, from cover to last paragraph...
...Paragraph 2, you mention "... tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts which hold title to most of the property in Little's $60-million textile empire." Only two of Textron's 26 plants are owned by tax-exempt foundations or trusts, and one of those is the Tobey-sponsored Nashua-New Hampshire Foundation...
...Paragraph 7, you state that the various "fiscal manipulations" of the trusts ". . . gave Textron an unfair advantage over taxpaying corporations." Textron is, of course, not tax free. In fact, as a result, in part, of the financial transactions referred to by you, Textron was able to increase its sales and therefore its taxes, enormously. In 1940, Textron paid less than $60,000 in taxes; in 1947, more than $6,000,000 in state and federal income taxes...
...sweep his room, and he had given up his two daily 30-minute strolls in the prison yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge him on his record. The last paragraph in his will explained why he had never written his memoirs. Wrote Petain (according to his lawyer): "I would have had to praise myself and say unpleasant things about others...
John Marin, 76-year-old dean of U.S. watercolorists, opened his paragraph bravely enough, but his description dwindled off into a thicket of punctuation dashes. "The good picture- No one wonders at more than the one who created it. Made-with an inborn instinct,-in which time begets an awareness -and these periods of awareness are- The-red letter-days in the Creator's life...