Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bleak wilderness surrounded by stern, snowcapped mountains, and in the wilderness a dismal tent city sprawling in the mud under a dour sky. This was the Matanuska Valley, 50 miles northeast of Anchorage, in south-central Alaska. This was the promised land-promised by the wide-eyed Federal Emergency Relief Administration to depression-ridden, red-blooded American families who wanted to leave home and make their way, in fine old American tradition, against the wilderness. This was May 11, 1935, a day of heartbreak...
...posse also includes the usual comic dog handler, in a movie that needs no comic relief. Yet the basic structure is still sound, despite one of the least likely romantic interludes on the modern screen...
...income families move to the suburbs, property values decline. Businessmen find themselves shouldering an increasing share of taxes while the shoppers they lost throng suburban shopping centers. Often the attempted remedy, subsidized public housing, turns out to be little better than the disease: the untaxed projects house people on relief...
...quit his advisory role to whip her crew into shape and to take the helm himself for the final trials (TIME, Sept. 15). Shields stepped aside because of the strain on his ailing heart, but at week's end was hopefully determined to race against Sceptre as a relief helmsman to famed Yacht and Auto Racer Briggs Cunningham, 51, Columbia's regular skipper. And the cockpit crew will be completed by the retiring, reticent intellectual who is most responsible for Columbia's basic speed: Designer Olin Stephens, 50, world's best yacht architect...
Leading the fight for tax relief was Schenley Industries, which favored granting tax relief to existing and future whisky stocks. Among Schenley's arguments: only in this way can U.S. distillers compete with the British and Canadians, whose governments have no force-out tax provision. Against Schenley stood Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. Seagram argued that Schenley held 60% to 70% of all the old whisky in the U.S., hence would reap the major benefit. Seagram backed a different proposal of the Distilled Spirits Institute: grant tax relief, but prohibit distillers from labeling their whiskies as over eight years...