Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bearer's Scheme. Abbott's tax schedules are cunningly contrived to meet this border competition. But only in the lowest brackets are they below current U.S. rates (see box). Farther up the scale, they still take more from the pocket than does the U.S. Treasury...
Chesterton advocated communal ownership of large-scale industry and decentralized agriculture. But as a revolutionary he was very much of an Englishman. The threat of World War I forced him to choose armaments produced by capitalists rather than socialist-pacifist unpreparedness...
Apparently, said one correspondent, the Russians' first experience with large-scale, uncensored coverage of Russia by the Allied press "affected the Government hierarchy just about as pleasurably as a swift kick in the groin. "And though the people who irritated them most have departed, I'm sure they still hurt all over, and this soreness isn't helped any by the generally fruitless atmosphere in which the conference closed. As a result, the correspondents who stayed behind in Moscow probably face an indeterminate period of aggravated suspicion, noncooperation and stupidly rigorous censorship -a tougher censorship than before...
...small minority of consumers. The No. i problem for the U.S. was still to keep up the purchasing power of the majority. This could be done only by lowered prices. Was it not time that management showed a high degree of economic statesmanship-and lowered prices on a broad scale? Were not profits so high-despite wage increases-that businessmen could afford to lower prices...
Spring football closed up shop for another year last Saturday afternoon amid the puddles and mud of the current rainy season. Full-scale games on Wednesday and Saturday climaxed a month of maneuvering, scrimmaging, and learning plays; and head coach and strategist Richard Cresson Harlow has nothing to do now but dream up ideas for next autumn's affairs...