Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only has 1949 been a record year for construction in Cambridge, but there are a number of businessmen who would like to build here but can't for lack of space; Plan E's low tax rate has proved quite an attraction in this respect. Finally, Cambridge-unlike such one industry cities as Fall River, Lynn, and Gloucester-is somewhat depression-resistant in that it boasts diversification of trades. Candy, soap, chemicals, metals, and printing companies-as well as colleges-continue to flourish here...
...young man is nowhere to be found in the latest collection "And On the Eighth Day." Apparently Dean has had done with introspection and now contents himself with satiring man's stupidities and vanities. At any rate were seldom encounter ourselves in the cartoons. It seems that the trial of gazing on this chaos within and without has left him too weak to finish off his sketches, for they remain rough lines and only half grayed in. Abner Dean's world in all its nakedness is still good for a shutter if not so good for a laugh...
...rate: one divorce in about four marriages...
...collected in the following year, secured loans indiscriminately from any bank that would give them. Consequently, he incurred the wrath of not only the bankers who had lost control of the city, but also of many voters who didn't care to see his mysterious financing reflected in tax rate hikes...
...rates in Cambridge have continued to slide, though more slowly, so that the tax rate for 1949 will be $39.80 as against the 1941 high of $46.30. Meanwhile the quality of public administration has improved...