Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This kind of impudent guff pours out of station CKLW (Detroit-Windsor) for no less than three and a half hours six mornings a week (Mon. through Sat., 6-9:30 a.m., E.W.T.). Through some quirk of the radio waves, surprised U.S. Army pilots on the New Guinea run pick it up, write ardent fan letters. Hosts of Detroiters are equally enthusiastic about The Early Morning Frolic and the pair of wacky mimics who operate...
Until the tax laws are changed there is little reason for a company to buy its own bonds below par. Reason: the Government siphons off most of the paper profits in hard cash taxes. But a quirk in the law leaves profits on preferred stock retirement untouched (unless the company buys to resell at higher prices). Thus A.G.W.I. earmarked $414,000 for Federal income taxes in the first half, but will not pay one penny on its $925,000 paper profit in buying back its own preferred stock...
...McNayr, Newtonville; Robert K. Monney, Waterford, Conn; Lester J. Murphy, Dorchester; William O'Keefe, Staten Istand, New York; Thomas J. O'Toole, Newton; Frank A. Pemberton, Jr., Chestnut Hill; John G. Penson, Glen Head, L. I., N. Y.; Allen C. Percival, Fitchburg; Frederick Pope, Jr., Wilton, Conn.; Thomas C. Quirk, Watertown; James J. Redmen, Horulutu, Hawall; John C. Robbins, Jr., Cleveland Heights, Ohio; James T. Ragers, Binghampton...
...vacations, permanent waves, a pint of beer in the evening-had disappeared. To some it meant cutting necessities from their budgets. Bachelors talked of marrying widows with large families to take advantage of the $200-per-child annual exemption. Engaged girls wondered whether to get married, since, by a quirk of the law, unmarried couples living together get $40 more exemption than married ones. All other British wage-earners chewed the tops of pencils, figured, pulled long faces...
...brain, whether by tumor, abscess, infection, gunshot wound, shell splinters, or other accidents. Certain clusters of brain cells discharge electrical impulses to the muscles at an abnormal rate. This produces writhing and twitching. A tendency toward epilepsy runs in families; this may be due to some small quirk in the brain formation, together with an abnormal metabolism, faulty water balance, etc. Since electroencephalograms (charts of the electric waves discharged from the brain) can detect epileptic tendencies, some epilepsy experts suggest that all young couples about to be married have their heads examined...