Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Present basic individual income tax rate (highest in the world) is 5 ½ shillings on the pound (in the U. S. that would be 371 cents on the dollar) for incomes above $625 a year. That rate will remain, but to make conscription of manpower more palatable to the lower classes, the Government also made a gesture of conscripting wealth. Surtaxes on incomes from $10,000 to $40,000 were raised 5%, on those above $40,000, 10%. Sample taxes: on a childless married man's income...
DETROIT Mich, (UP) Columbia Lou Gehrig's great iron-man baseball record was abruptly cut short yesterday at 2130 consecutive games, and his mates took the occasion to go on a scoring spree and pound out 22 runs against the liap less Detroit Tigers...
Australia's 245-pound, athletic former Attorney General Robert G. Menzies (pronounced as spelled, not mengies as in Scotland) was in a big hurry to get to Parliament House in Canberra one day last week. The United Australia Party was meeting there to choose a leader to succeed the late Prime Minister Joseph A. Lyons (TIME, April 17), and Mr. Menzies had reason to think he might be picked-which would mean that he would almost automatically become Prime Minister. In his great rush Mr. Menzies slipped, fell, sprained his arm. He finally appeared at the meeting with...
...price of copper slumped from 18? to 8? a pound; U. S. wheat fell from $1.30 to 53? a bushel; cotton from 16? to 6? per Ib.; beef from...
...Manhattan for a visit landed Idaho-born Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, loudest and funniest U. S. expatriate. Still arrogant, shrill, red-bearded, he readily announced: "I came over only because I'm curious. ... I regard the literature of social significance as of no significance. It is pseudo-pink blah. . . . The best practical economic stuff is being written in Italy today. Men write there for audiences of 500 or 600, say what they want and make sense...