Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpreted by Commissioner Helvering, he declared, the $4,500,000,000 figure was a gross overstatement of income to be made available for taxation by the new bill. The Treasury estimated that 1936 dividends will be only 8 1/3% greater than in 1935. Available first-quarter statistics reveal a rise of 18%. The Treasury estimated that corporations will distribute only 49% of their income to stockholders this year. But the Treasury's own figures show that, in twelve recorded years, corporations have distributed dividends averaging 66% of their incomes. Summing these and other points, Mr. May declared...
...trying hard to push his mental horizon beyond Kansas plains. Of his capacity to fill the White House chair, his friend William Allen White devoutly declares: "If a man has any latent subconscious powers they are aroused by the overwhelming responsibility. ... I am inclined to believe that Landon would rise to it. I don't know. No man knows. I don't think he knows...
...that it was already pre-empted by a mere major. One of the most potent of Fascist bigwigs is Major Giuseppe Bottai, 40. A War veteran with a brilliant record, he later edited various nationalist papers, joined Benito Mussolini before the March on Rome. So quick was his rise as a party politician that at the age of 34 Giuseppe Bottai was Fascist Minister of Corporations, wielding more power than Il Duce thought good for him. Soon he was kicked upstairs to be Fascist Governor of Rome. When the African adventure developed, Fascist Bottai packed his kit without a word...
...increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus. If lack of the food to which the upper bowel is accustomed continues for more than a very few hours, those species of bacteria normally resident in the colon and cecum ascend into the ileum and jejunum and there proliferate giving rise to huge amounts of gas and to symptoms of toxemia from absorption...
...unusual restrictions on the summa award were lifted and this was reflected by the rise to 4 per cent Honors men receiving summas that year...