Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After five years in "murderer's canary cage" it is a great relief suddenly to see through open doors into a free world, and when one is trying to become re-orientated to the facts and problems of the western world, TIME is an excellent supplement to our daily newspapers (still rubbing their eyes...
...finished product was not exactly what onetime Ways & Means Committee member Vinson had asked, but it was close. The bill provided for a total tax reduction of $5.3 billion (some $300 million more than Vinson had suggested). It also extended to all levels the relief which the Treasury plan would have concentrated mainly in the lower brackets. The committee also rejected Vinson's proposal for repeal of the excess-profits tax on corporations. Instead it substituted a cut from 85½% to 60% and a promise of total repeal...
...French achieved a nervous truce, but no agreement, last week with rebellious Annamites at Saïgon. Much to the relief of colonials, a respectable show of French force was possible: the battleships Richelieu and Triomphant had arrived. But in northern Indo-China, liberated and still occupied by the Chinese, native Viet Nam leaders crowed that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had personally promised them support...
...Control of U.S. participation in UNRRA, which has plans for distribution of $150 million worth of surplus property to European nations as relief...
Many prisoners, who had heard nothing but Jap propaganda for one to four years, most wanted updating on sports and movies. Some wanted to talk about ways to stop war. One group sighed with relief on learning that, contrary to a report in the Nippon Times, Deanna Durbin is still alive...