Word: repeals
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...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...
...would repeal the 3% "normal" income tax, thus eliminate some 12,000,000 low-income Americans from the collectors' lists and lower the collectors' take from many more millions of middle-income earners. It would also repeal the 85.5% excess-profits tax on corporations and would end (on July 1, 1946) the high wartime excises on furs, jewelry, transportation, cosmetics...
...Taylor, and another public member. Snapped the New York Times: "The board now exists without real powers or prestige ... [its] continued wraithlike existence . . . merely serves to confuse thinking and to clutter up the road . . . [Congress] should end the legal life of the War Labor Board now by an immediate repeal of the Smith-Connally 'Anti-Strike...
President Harry Truman prepared to give Montgomery Ward & Co. back to Sewell Avery and his stockholders, other seized plants back to private management. And with an eye on the clock, he vowed to ask Congress to repeal War Time...
...millions of well-heeled U.S. women bought whatever they could get, as they always do, the garment makers and sellers felt safe and sure that all fall lines could be safely moved before Christmas. Then a frightening specter arose. Without warning, WPB announced that it was set to repeal the L85 order. OPA, which feared for its price ceilings, at once wagged a warning finger. In Manhattan's teeming garment center, there was great consternation...