Word: porting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exempt bonds could not exist side by side. Those who earn their livelihood from Government should bear the same tax burden as those who earn their livelihood in private employment." The President reminded Congress that unless it acts before March 15. salaries paid by quasi-public bodies like the Port of New York Authority will, by last year's decision of the Supreme Court, be subject to Federal income tax retroactively for three years. He urged a simple act (instead of a Constitutional Amendment) to end all exemptions, but not retroactively, and sent Under-Secretary of the Treasury John...
...port of Aden lies on the edge of a huge, volcanic rock on the tilted coast of southwest Arabia about 100 miles from the mouth of the Red Sea. Romans called the neighboring territory Arabia Felix. Kipling, with a sharper eye for the facts, called Aden "a barrick-stove." It is one of the hottest, most forlorn spots in the British Empire, of which it became a part just a century ago. Its acquisition as Queen Victoria's first colony made the young virgin Queen very happy. She, the Romans and Aden's Governor, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Bernard...
...earthy and their cats red-brown from omnipresent dust. Malaria and other tropical diseases are common. Only industries are manufacture of salt and cigarets (which are sold very cheaply under pirated labels). Such sports as camel-racing can be indulged in when it is not too hot. The port, a strategic and impregnable naval base (sometimes called the Gibraltar of the East) bristles with guns...
...heaters from the exhaust), was tragically demonstrated one afternoon last week. Less than two hours after Imperial Airways' four-motored flying boat Cavalier had left New York for Bermuda with eight passengers, a five-man crew, a series of terse, desperate messages began to reach the Port Washington base...
...newsmen was the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority, which didn't know either. Under a reciprocal agreement, Imperial's planes are checked for airworthiness by Britain's Air Ministry at Bermuda. Pan American Airways planes, which ply the same route, are checked by CAA inspectors at Port Washington...