Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kind of Man, like so many Warner films, is less esthetically vivid, more earnestly aware of history and document. A return to the year before repeal, it tells the story of an egomaniac gambler (Zachary Scott), his girl (Janis Paige), and a columnist (Dane Clark) who refused to take no, or a beating, for an answer...
...Profits of Peace. In the repeal of the excess-profits tax, industry found the bonanza it had hoped for. Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. listed a 1946 profit of $3,210,000 v. $1,336,000 for 1945. Standard Brands, Inc., with sales down 3% and income-before-taxes down a big 34%, was still able to report a net income of $3,667,555 v. $2,699,400, because taxes had been cut 65%. International Business Machines did better. So did Monsanto Chemical, which doubled its earnings. Montgomery Ward & Co. climbed up from...
...When Repeal came, he had 500,000 gallons aging in the winery. Italian Swiss, which had thought Di Giorgio crazy to give away his grapes, was glad to buy back his wine. His take...
...embittered days Tories and Socialists had been trading blows over Labor's four-line bill to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act. The four lines packed more political dynamite than a buzz bomb. Britain's first and only general strike in 1926, the nearest it had come to violent revolution in a century (and it was not very close), had shocked the easygoing Baldwin Government into banning political strikes. For all Labor, and especially for a bellicose trades unionist named Bevin, the Act was a standing insult...
High priority would go to repeal a legal curb which Labor has resented for 19 years-the ban on general and political strikes, passed by the Conservatives after the great strike...