Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brands that the government's tobacco revenue has dropped $8,000,000 this year, in spite of the increased tax rate. Cigarette factories have begun laying off workers because of decreased sales. A cutback in tobacco taxes seems virtually certain in next year's budget, if not sooner. Said the Ottawa Journal: "The government has been given a lesson in elementary economics...
...sooner had Ziegler announced the sale than an ex-colleague, one James R. Warren of Omaha, filed suit. Warren charged that he had prospected with Ziegler, and was entitled to 50% of Bonanza. But Ziegler, who claimed that he had paid Warren in full for his services, professed to be unworried. He dashed off to buy a $4,000 Jaguar and a $10,000 Rolls-Royce for himself ("only a small one"), a big diamond for Isabella. The rest of the money, says he, will go to developing other properties he has leased near Worland. Says Ziegler: "It will...
...sixteen year old version of Jeanne D'Arc who cannot decide whether to enter a convent, thus pleasing one half of her family, or stay out and please the other half. By the end of the first act last Monday, the audience seemed in favor of the convent--the sooner the better...
Actually, the showdown is at hand. In the corn belt's feed lots is a record number of cattle that must come to market sooner or later. If they move soon, prices will drop, beef will be plentiful, and Mike Di Salle will win his battle for continued controls. But if this does not happen, and the beef-control program is working as badly and as unfairly by midwinter as it is now, then even impartial observers think that meat controls must be abandoned...
Councillor Edward J. Sullivan, who originated the resolution in Council to request the survey, could not be reached last night for comment. He earlier had expressed hopes that the survey could be finished much sooner than now seems likely...