Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months experts and pundits in Washington have argued compulsory saving pro & con. Eleanor Roosevelt trial-ballooned a scheme for deferred overtime pay, coupled with deferred corporation profits in excess of 3%. Among other proposals are plans to give a certain amount of compensating income-tax deductions to those who buy defense bonds, and simply to impose heavier social-security taxes. All have the same general object: to hold down wartime inflation-and to pump the spending power back when a post-war depression starts...
...Malagasy (as ethnologists call them) have had a few years' schooling. Some have even taken posts in the Colonial Government and learned the European world view. They know what time is. and how fast it can run. Last week they wondered how Madagascar fitted into the Axis time scheme...
...certainly an eye-opener for us, for until then I always thought that this demand to oust us from the sunny Southern California was nothing but a dirty scheme by some of our local politicians. But I now realize the awful necessity of us getting out of the coast as soon as possible and I do believe that it is our duty to move inland so that we may relieve the Army the burden of keeping watch over us when it must concentrate its full power on guarding the important coast. This is a fight to finish and our fate...
...that a decrease in advertising might force the Redbook to suspend publication next year, thus removing one of the few remaining bonds of unity between the scattered Yardlings. "Lack of advertising will be immaterial under the new program," he said, and disclosed that Redbook officials had approved of the scheme...
While the speed required now in building army cantonments necessitates a trend toward simplicity, the decentralization of urban centers which has been going on unchecked and unplanned should have an over-all scheme, he asserted...