Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John implied that the already crushing British income tax, which long ago ceased to be purely a "soak-the-rich" proposition, will have to be extended downward from the white-collar to the soiled-collar class. Britain is spending half her national income on the war, the Chancellor warned, yet even with armament plants going full blast 1,400,000 workers are still unemployed. Sir John, with typical British forthrightness, declared that a war of this magnitude cannot be fought on any easy assumption that it will not depress the existing standard of living in Britain and elsewhere...
...host of new millionaires to grab economic control of the country and throw $50,000 parties, but these victories also resulted in the Populists, the Knights of Labor, the Sherman Anti-Trust law, the first Federal income taxes. Further victories for wealth inspired further income taxes, inheritance taxes, soak-the-rich propaganda...
...great majority of Germans have always washed themselves with laundry soap-toilet soap in the Reich can now be sold only for the use of babies and physicians-but last week even laundry soap was hard to get. Housewives were advised to soak potato peelings in water, use the resulting mess as soap. Discovery that cellulose, used in making explosives, can be produced from discarded potato tops was announced in Berlin last week, caused the price of potato tops, hitherto not marketed but thrown away, to rise in Germany...
...Economy might be worth trying if there were any guarantee that business would soak up the fresh unemployment resulting from cessation of Government spending. "I doubt, however," said the President, "whether this would meet with popular approval if it were tried and the results were not attained." Then he added that he guessed that he had said "a mouthful." (See below...
...farther Japanese troops push into China, the poorer grow the folks at home. To Japanese army leaders the solution is obvious-soak Japan's few rich even harder. To do so, the army wants to invoke Article 11 of the National Mobilization Act passed by the last Diet. This article makes it possible not only to limit industrial profits, but to direct how they should be used...