Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compromise plan killed because it would have raised their gas, diesel and tire taxes $1 billion yearly. The small businessmen did all right: the Small Business Administration was extended for two years, and the Justice Department's recommendation (backed by big-city department stores and discount houses) to repeal Fair Trade laws was blocked...
SILVER BATTLE is brewing in the Senate over a bill to repeal the Government's silver-purchase law. Under the law, the Treasury must buy U.S.-mined silver at a fixed price of 90.14? an oz. Silver-users are backing a bill, introduced by Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Green, to eliminate silver price supports, thus drop the price, but western Senators are fighting tooth and nail to kill the idea...
While Gussie scrubbed vats, his father tried to hold the company together and fought for survival and repeal. Anheuser-Busch turned from beer to a variety of other products: yeast, refrigeration cabinets, bus and truck bodies, corn and malt syrup, and a variety of soft drinks, including a chocolate soft drink named Carcho. The losses were staggering. Nevertheless, the company stayed in business. Young Gussie used the time to climb through the ranks. By 1924 he was brewery superintendent; in 1926 he was named general manager and sixth vice president; eight years later, when Prohibition was finally repealed...
...solid majority, 55,013 to 39,917. Last week, adding impost to injury, the Denver Health Department proposed a tax on pet food to pay for the law's enforcement. Mayor Quigg Newton quickly killed the idea, but bristling dog owners held a protest meeting to plan repeal of the leash law at the August city election...
...second aim should be to repeal the compulsory school attendance law; we should not leave in the Code any provision that might compel Virginia parents, white or Negro, to send their children to any given school against their will...