Word: saves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helpless Minister. There were Frenchmen in Algiers who risked their lives to save Moslems. During one struggle, a middleaged, bespectacled Frenchman broke through a crowd of young hoodlums, put his arm around a bleeding Moslem, and amid jeers and threats led him away. In the center of the city another crowd, storming through the streets, was stopped by a paratroop colonel. "Our fight here must be dignified and worthy!" shouted the colonel. "Go home quietly." The crowd cheered him, broke into the Marseillaise, then went on rioting. Sitting in his office in the gleaming white government building, Minister Resident Robert...
Canada's powerful Liberals, 168-strong in Parliament v. the 50 seats of their Progressive Conservative challengers, went to elections with smug confidence. Just before the vote last week they canceled an advertising campaign, to save needless expense. But with the first returns, an astonishing trend set in. From half a dozen eastern constituencies that were long firmly Liberal came the flash: "Tories Leading." The Tory surge grew as it moved west. Quickly the last seat of the overwhelming Liberal majority fell, and the Liberals' 22-year rule over Canada came to an end. When final returns were...
...years, deduct the income from his return, then take back both his securities and the income at the end of the trust period. The benefits are so big that organizations have been formed in Cleveland, New York, Chicago and San Francisco for the specific purpose of helping taxpayers save money. The San Francisco Foundation alone held 36 trusts last year with a book value of well over $1,000,000, issued grants totaling $268,628 to charities...
...bracket, who wanted to spread his tax credit over a period of years, donated his $25,000 yacht to a university in two sections, half one year, half the next, got a $12,500 deduction each year. But tax lawyers warn that anyone who hopes to save money by giving it away had better read all the fine print in the law since the Internal Revenue Service rates each scheme on its individual merits...
...civil-war-torn Madrid, I.T. & T.'s 13-story Telefonica headquarters was shelled 184 times by Franco gunners, while retreating Loyalists threatened to blow it up as a suspected spy center. Ramrod-stiff Colonel Behn himself arrived to save I.T. & T.'s besieged fortress, eventually sold the whole Spanish company to Franco for $88 million. In Western Europe, Nazi expropriations cut the 40% income that I.T. & T. got from the subsidiary International Standard Electric, to zero. But in Rumania, Behn arrived in the nick of time, sold out for $13.8 million shortly before the country went over...