Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unmarried civilian with no dependents, income taxation starts when gross earnings reach $525.01, at which level the Income tax collector's bill is a modest $1. But a member of the military or naval forces, also unmarried and with no dependents, doesn't owe the $1 until his total earnings for a year reach $775.01--provided as much as $250 of these earnings come from wartime pay for active service...
...Wadsworth bill would compel all boys reaching the age of 18 to submit to one year of military training before they reach 20. The purpose of this legislation is to forestall the very strong instinct for disarmament after the war, which, if undertaken too soon or too suddenly would render the United States unable to back up its collective security with force if it is needed...
From Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, after a frantic search, went an iron lung. From Buenos Aires, where a Pan American plane made a special stop, to São Paulo went Johnson & Johnson's Vice President Andrew Rohlfing, only man within reach who knew how an iron lung was operated. The reason: Getulio Vargas Jr., youngest son of Brazil's President, had suddenly been taken ill in São Paulo, was in serious condition with infantile paralysis...
...Willard (last stop, after appearances at the Stage Door Canteen, Mayflower, Shoreham, Wardman Park, Lincoln Colonnades), Eleanor Roosevelt long-legged it through a corridor smothered with bunting. There her evening was to reach its climax: cutting of a 200-lb. birthday cake. Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen greeted...
...Treasury cannot lose a year's revenue even if the taxes are collected against this year's instead of last year's income. Meantime the danger is growing that if taxation experts do not soon snap out of their fog several million new taxpayers may reach March 15 under the impression that the lose-a-year's-taxes talk means that they need not pay anything at all this year...