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...What we should do at this critical moment is to wait for the great command from the throne. All wishful thinking must now be completely eliminated, nor is it of any use now to recount bygone events...
...Echigey (pop. 159), a village of north central France, a full slate of women councillors was elected. The men candidates demanded a recount...
...year excess profits base on which the tax is estimated. Thus, since the top bracket is 90%, even a slight upward revision of the average base would mean an enormous rebate. To make sure that no corporation was frozen out of at least a chance to claim such a recount, Congress made Section 722 a long, loosely-phrased document offering several broad formulas for arriving at a new tax base. Example: if, during one of the four tax-base years, a corporation's profits were below normal, it could compute a new average tax base for four normal years...
...Schorr's candidate, barely beat out two rivals, both last-named Herbert (TIME, March 13). One of the Herberts (Attorney General Thomas J.), was Senator Harold Burton's choice to derail the Schorr machine; he finished only 2,005 votes behind Stewart, and talked of a recount...
Those who have not heard Jimmy recount his morning adventures in a car pool have missed the funniest incident in the civilian war effort (Driver Durante, trying his best to keep proper control of the brake and '"exhilarator,'" is nudged so far over by "Share-the-ride-Schwartz" and other multiplying members of the pool that finally '"I'm standin' on da corner waitin' for a streetcar...