Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have usually left equal in their discussions. Professor Harris relates the Social Security program to most of the major issues of the day--decline in interest rates, stagnation, deficit financing, and relief and wage policies. His most original contribution is his study of the incidence and effects of pay-roll taxes where he shows that the burden of a pay-roll tax may fall on other factors in production or the consumers rather than the wage-earner. He also performs a valuable service in stressing that consideration must be given to the needs of Social Security itself as an institution...
...list of Hollywood's worst of 1941. But unlike every other year, the denunciation, which included Betty Grable and Veronica Lake among other poor unfortunates, has not raised any authoritative answering blast from the Coast. It has been suggested that film people are becoming hardened to the annual anathema roll, and that a permanent end has come to the happy little tussles between the 'Poen and the stars...
When Hitler's Panzers began rolling into Yugoslavia last April, General (then Colonel) Mihailovich led his regiment into the mountain fastnesses near the Albanian border and let the enemy roll on to Greece. The collapse of the only partly mobilized Yugoslav Army meant that thousands of soldiers, fully and modernly equipped, rushed to Mihailovich. Soon Mihailovich began systematically harassing Nazi police units and the pro-Nazi Croatian Ustashi...
...task should have been easy. All 200 men at the meeting-auto executives, labor leaders, OPM and other defense chiefs-had the same goal. Without conversion to munitions the auto industry was finished, because there was no more rubber for its peacetime cars to roll on. Without conversion the union was a union of unemployed. And without conversion the Government would have trouble getting all the matériel that it needs to beat the Axis...
...Fifth were to inscribe Singapore on its roll of battle honors, the entire strategy of the United Nations would require revision. Control of Singapore would give the Japanese easy access to the Indian Ocean. Both Britain's Indian Empire and her Middle Eastern Front (supplied through the Indian Ocean and Red Sea) would be menaced...