Word: remains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised by Social Security taxes. Subtracting this sum the Government's net income for the post-Recovery era will be $6,519,000,000 compared to a typical $4,000,000,000 in pre-Depression times. This increase of 62% is not due to customs collections which remain below pre-Depression levels. As Depression brought new functions of government it also brought new taxes. Biggest of them are liquor taxes, $644,000,000; manufacturers' excises $449,000,000; miscellaneous nuisance taxes, $83,000,000. But the biggest increase expected is in the collection of income taxes...
Whether porters become "Porter" or merely cease being "George," I remain...
...Whites (see p. 23) and this did not seem to shock official Britain. In an annex to the pact, Count Ciano declared, with particular reference to the Balearics, that "so far as Italy is concerned the integrity of present territories of Spain shall in all circumstances remain intact and unmodified." This said nothing about the large Italian force at present in the Balearics, and Count Ciano may have given his "assurance" in the Pickwickian sense that the Fascists will keep the Reds out of the Balearics and make them safe for the Whites...
...Italy has her belly full with Ethiopia," he said, "and in case of a war she would remain neutral. Russia has no desire for war. Hitler, should be desire war, would be stopped by his general staff, for no army wants to fight a war in which they haven't got a chance...
...planned at first," he said, "to present one orchid to Mr. Curley as he descended from political lime- light into obscurity, and another one if he would promise to remain in obscurity. But the pseudo-florists of Jackson Hole, N.H., ruined everything...