Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of the whole tax problem by a joint committee of the House Ways & Means and Appropriations and the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee members, with special attention to the present law which provides that corporation excess of capital losses can be deducted only to the extent of $2,000 plus capital gains...
...midsummer eve on June 23, when there is no night in Sweden and the people dance around the maypoles. In England last week 500,000 people saw Blue Peter win the Derby; cars were leaving London at the rate of 48,000 an hour; railroads put on 2,500 special trains for Whitsunday; a ?5.000,000 South African loan was subscribed in 15 minutes; unemployment had decreased by 395,000 since February. In weather so exceptional the Derby was called Heatwave Derby, all young men between 20 and 21 registered for the draft, and labor's periodic stirring, signalized...
Hanfstaengl was involved in a sensational controversy with Harvard five years ago when his offer of a special Hanfstaengl scholarship was turned down by President Conant and the Corporation because of the donor's close affiliation with the Nazi movement...
...Bureau of Legal Medicine denounced it for unnecessarily expanding the work of the U. S. Public Health Service and Social Security Board, for "extreme vagueness [in spending] vast sums of money" and the "great powers conferred on certain Federal officers in the control of the spending," and a special committee of the House of Delegates met in camera for three days, emerged with a document listing 22 objections to the Wagner Plan. Hottest hits: "The bill insidiously promotes the development of a complete system of tax-supported Government medical care," and "the bill provides for supreme Federal control...
Like any other businesslike airline, K. L. M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines) likes to run from city to city by the most direct route. But last week its new special London-Warsaw plane service was routed via Copenhagen, Gdynia and south to the Polish capital, avoided the direct route across Germany...