Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessmen, the 1946 tax cuts will provide $3,136,000,000 of relief by eliminating all excess-profits taxes, by reducing corporation income-tax rates by 2 to 4%. This will give industry a cushion against the rising pressure between price ceilings and labor's wage demands, and should help stimulate reconversion and re-employment. But out of every dollar of profit over $50,000, business concerns will still pay the Government...
...from satisfied with the job UNRRA was doing already, U.S. Representatives voted to give the huge relief agency still another job. The House approved a $550 million appropriation for UNRRA, but attached a string: the money could be spent only in countries which granted the U.S. press full freedom to report UNRRA doings...
Similar policy matters, soluble only at a high diplomatic level, had greatly retarded UNRRA's performance, and UNRRA was falling far short of expectations. It could give no relief to the hungry countries of northwestern Europe. Short on authority, it could do little in the field of rehabilitation. Whatever UNRRA needed, it was not the job of enforcing press freedom...
After so much slaughter and misery, perhaps a better day is dawning for Polish Jews. Poland is again Russian-dominated. But racism is not among the shortcomings of Soviet philosophy. Some Jews occupy high posts in the Warsaw Government. Money has been provided for relief and rehabilitation...
Convert Budenz, whose excellent record as a labor organizer includes 21 arrests, issued a statement that sounded like a long sigh of relief: "Reason and faith have led to this happy step. . . . The privilege of returning to the sacraments is one to be deeply prized; it is, after a long journey, the true returning home...