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...ultimate answer lies in the third alternative: partial expansion to, perhaps 6000. While an increase of 1500 would soak up only a drop of the torrent, it can be justified on both practical and theoretical grounds...
...Republican controlled 80th Congress) bossed it through the vast revenue-raising needed for depression and war. Determinedly cracker-barrel (Taxation is a matter of "getting the most feathers with the least squawks from the goose"), Tax-Planner Doughton tried to follow the fiscal center lane, grumbled disapprovingly about "Soak-the-Rich" programs at the same time he was denouncing a proposed federal sales tax because "it taxes the bread and britches of the poor...
...water into the air. Fireworks burst overhead, releasing a rain of miniature U.S. flags and Canadian ensigns. At long last construction was started on the huge electric-power project undertaken jointly by the State of New York and the Canadian Province of Ontario. Said Dewey: "The crapehangers may now soak their heads. This is a day of triumph...
...answer. Quesada will tap 200 of the country's top scientists, give them absolutely free reign to wander through the problem at an 80-acre laboratory in Van Nuys, have them delve into theoretical electronics and upper-air travel. He will pay high salaries, encourage them to soak up academic atmosphere by letting them teach part-time at three nearby universities: CalTech. U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. For the final payoff, a corps of 1,000 engineers will be called in to translate the theory into practical missiles systems, e.g., long-range rockets with infallible electronic brains to guide them...
...whose currencies cannot be directly converted to U.S. dollars but can be converted to still other currencies which TIME can use. On occasion, Ryus has considered some weird and wonderful schemes to realize at least some dollars from "pazooties." "I particularly remember one idea of several years ago - to soak up a whole pile of blocked Dutch guilders by buying cheeses and bringing them...