Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buttermakers thought that Congress had picked the worst possible time to repeal oleo taxes, for butter prices have been slipping and surpluses mounting. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture bought up 239,000 lbs. of butter to support the wholesale price at 60? a lb., thereby adding to its huge 86 million-lb. stock of surplus butter...
...Conservatives are returned to power, their first act will be to repeal the iron-steel nationalization bill. Then they will attempt to mitigate some of the high taxes and "controls" on business, and bring about a gradual end to rationing. There will probably be little revision in the government health or insurance plans, both of which have wide popular support. No attempt will be made to give industries already nationalized back to private owners, but there will be no more socialization and private enterprise will be given encouragement. The Tory campaign has emphasized that only American aid has saved...
...only outright excise repeal the Ad ministration had in mind was the 3% tax on freight transportation and the 20% tax on baby oils, powders and lotions. A few other items came in for varying cuts: plane, bus and train tickets (from 15% to 10%), long distance telephone and telegraph tolls (25% to 15%), furs, luggage, jewelry and cosmetics (20% to 10%). The tax would stay on such items as movie tickets, sport goods and autos-and the 10% tax on radio would be extended to television sets as well...
From then to the outbreak of World War I, young Socialist Attlee worked with Sidney and Beatrice Webb for the repeal of the Poor Law, lectured at Ruskin College, Oxford, on trade unionism and trade-union law, and later on social science at the London School of Economics. He became a member of the Fabian Society and of the Independent Labor Party...
...movie industry's vast ballyhoo machinery whirred into high gear this week to support a feverish crusade. Its goal: repeal of the 20% federal tax on movie admissions...