Word: quilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liquor), the emergency "luxury"' taxes of 20% on cosmetics, jewelry, luggage, theater admissions and furs, the 15% levy on travel, telephone calls and sporting goods, and 10% on autos, refrigerators and TV sets. One advantage of a general sales tax is that it would replace this crazy-quilt discriminatory structure with a uniform tax (except on tobacco, gasoline and liquor, which probably would be left...
...Christian Democrats had expected at best to run up a narrow majority over the Social Democrats and the crazy quilt of splinter parties competing for the 484 seats in the Bundestag. Instead, they won a smashing victory, and the right to govern Germany for four more years. In district after district, the Socialists lost strength and Adenauer's C.D.U. gained. Every one of the Communists' 14 seats in the Bundestag-including that of Party Boss Max Reimann-was jerked away from them. The neo-Nazi German Reich Party did even worse than the Communists...
...disregard one for the other, you then create a situation either of doubtful military strength, or of such precarious economic strength that your military position is in constant jeopardy. It has been the purpose of this Administration ever since it took office, finding itself confronted with a crazy quilt of promises, commitments and contracts, to bring American military logic and American economic logic into joint, strong harness...
...routes of Delta Air Lines form a jagged Y from Chicago to Miami and from Atlanta to Dallas. But Delta President C. E. Woolman would like them to cover the eastern half of the U.S. like a crazy quilt. In 1950, he made a deal to merge with Northeast, thus cash in on some lucrative New England business. Then he offered to buy the southern routes of Capital Airlines. Last week, while both these deals awaited approval, Woolman dreamed of further expansion...
Houston's verdict was that Bemelmans' art lives up to the Bemelmans purpose. The paintings in the show were done mostly in France and Italy-a world of squiggly churches, toyland villages and sunlit harbors, all as gay as a crazy quilt. But Bemelmans' own favorites are his paintings of people in restaurants. "A restaurant," says he, "is a refuge. I sit there floating with a bottle of wine and silently observe. Instead of a bird watcher, I am a people watcher...