Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Payoff. Under the tax passed in 1913, a married man with two children and $10,000 a year paid $60. There were a good many complaints. The tax brought in $28 million. As a weapon against the rich, the income tax was little better than a flintlock. In 1902, there were 2,000 U.S. millionaires. In 1920, there were 42,000. There are many more today. Reason: millionaires rarely get to be millionaires by thriftily saving income; they do it through increasing capital values...
...with the rush and sparkle of a Vermont freshet, and was right up with the winners: second in the tricky slalom (behind Switzerland's Madeleine Berthod); third in the daredevil downhill (behind Austria's Trude Beiser, the U.S.'s Janette Burr), where sheer speed is the payoff; first in the giant slalom, where both speed and control count...
...championship game-the Browns won four straight titles in the defunct All-America Conference-the hard-charging Ram line kept Cleveland's famed quarterback, Otto Graham, constantly bottled up. At the end of the third quarter the Rams were tied, 17 all, with the mighty Browns. The payoff play: a 72-yd. scoring pass from Ram Substitute Quarterback Norman Van Brocklin to End Tom Fears. The new champions: the Rams, by a score...
...ability and plainly charmed by his ingenuous requests for money, promptly sent him to Texas' Tyler Junior College. The boosters paid his tuition and fees and, just to make sure that he was comfortable, gave him $125-a-month spending money. "Then," said Coach Graham, announcing the payoff, the ingrate "enrolled at Texas U., not K-State...
...Ralph Beard, Kentucky's 1947-49 All-America stars, and Dale Barnstable, 1949-50 captain. The place: Madison Square Garden's 1949 National Invitation Tournament. The opponent: Loyola of Chicago, a ten-point underdog, which upset Rupp's National Collegiate champions, 67-56. The admitted payoff: $500 apiece...