Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to run ahead of the previous twelvemonth by $1,357,000,000, biggest gains being in income and social security taxes. But the estimated total has been revised downward from $7,293,000,000 to $6,650,000,000, a $643,000,000 drop largely reflecting poor results from the undistributed profits tax and less sanguine expectations for business and stockmarket...
...Charles Augustus Tegart is being sent to Palestine. Next they learned that in Daharieh the Christians, not satisfied with dynamiting houses in reprisal for the capture of a few rifles, had levied a collective fine of $10,000 on the whole village. Since the Moslem villagers were too poor to pay, their sheep, cattle and movable household goods to a value of $10,000 by Christian estimates were to be seized by the skirt-wearing Black Watch and carried off to the braying of bagpipes...
...Poor bodies crowding round...
...Eliot eleven opened their bag of tricks early in the fray, trying a sleeper play right after they had received the opening kickoff. The play failed, however, and on fourth down the Elephants fumbled the ball due to a poor pass from center, and the Lowell team chalked up a safety...
...dwellings for the working population, as fine and practical examples of governmental paternalism as we have in the country, a number of public parks and playgrounds under the direction of Robert Moses, the Tri-Borough Bridge, new docks for the ocean liners, a health center for the poor in Harlem, and the west side highway on which you can travel from Canal Street to Poughkeepsie with-out stopping. As for driving out business, under the Fusion government the gain in factories from 193-35 was over six thousand, an increase of 35 per cent. And the police protection of life...