Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago. They heard the Patriarch Alexei's delegate demand submission to Moscow. In pious language, they told him to peddle his Moscovite peanuts elsewhere. Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, a stout believer in freedom for conscience and for God's church, told Alexei to repeal his Ukase 94 of last February. Key section of that ukase: Orthodox Churchmen in North and South America must "abstain from all political activity against the U.S.S.R...
...twelve months, U.S. citizens tossed off 190,000,000 gallons of whiskey, gin, brandy, rum and cordials, tying 1942's national, post-repeal record for drinking. They had trouble at home-in Reno a record 8,590 divorce suits were filed; in Hamilton County, Tenn., there were five times more marital split-ups than marriages; all across the nation the divorce rate boomed to new levels...
...Army's problems will not get any simpler. The Selective Service Act expires May 15. Unless Congress,'now in a mind to repeal the act, votes instead to renew and strengthen it, by next spring the Army will be in a worse plight...
Although gross income for U.S. business will drop in 1946, repeal of the excess profits tax will keep net corporate profits at the 1945 level ($10 billion). But wages and salaries, because of lost jobs and less overtime, will drop some $25 billion. Unemployment will soar...
...State Gives. A bill passed by Congress will repeal the U.S. Government's low rates on "land-grant railroads." Under the grants, the Government subsidized southern and western railroad building with 131 million acres of land. In return, the roads gave the Government a 50% reduction in rates for transportation of military supplies and troops. Total Government savings: about...