Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the marshy coastal plain of the Taman Peninsula rumbled hundreds of Soviet tanks and guns, perhaps 150,000 men. They cracked through Field Marshal Fritz von Manstein's defenses, pushed the Germans slowly back toward the narrow Kerch Strait, separating the Crimea from the Caucasus. Berlin radio claimed 61 Russian tanks knocked out one day, 59 the next, but admitted retreat: "In view of continuous Soviet attacks, it proved necessary to adopt a particularly elastic warfare...
...iron control of the company, which is valued at $718,000,000.* If this valuation were accepted by the Federal Government for tax purposes (though it might be higher or lower) the tax on Edsel's holdings could be roughly computed at 75%, or $225,000,000. The plain fact is that there may be enough liquid assets in the Ford empire to pay even this enormous tax. In December 1941, the Ford Motor Co. set liquid assets, cash, bonds, etc. at $230,580,916. This money could be used for taxes if it were loaned to Edsel...
...keep the company up to date. It was Edsel who finally persuaded Henry to junk the obsolete Model T and bring out the gearshift Model A. It was Edsel who argued for snappier designs, brighter colors, a complete line of low-priced cars. And when it became plain that the U.S. might be drawn into World War II, it was Edsel who counteracted his father's bone-deep hatred...
...misjudge Eliot, thanks to certain of his admirers, as the mere precious laureate of a Harvardian coterie. But that time, fortunately, is well past. So levelheaded a man as Somerset Maugham has recently (in his Introduction to Modern English & American Literature-anthology; TIME, May 24) done both poetry and plain readers a notable service by introducing Eliot to a large audience, without talking down and without so much as mentioning his "obscurity," as "the greatest poet of our time...
...Coin's Two Faces. Money is the commonest concern of mankind. Plain people talk about it constantly. In cafés, on trains, in bazaars, on front porches, over backyard fences everywhere in the world, money-the money price of things, the money rate for jobs-is the most common element in normal conversation. Not love, not crime, but money...