Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when "economic royalists" and "privileged princes" were blamed by F.D.R. for the Depression, the basic New Deal tax policy was to boost taxes in the upper brackets, keep them light on the "little man," and thus try to spur consumer spending and get the wheels of industry turning again. The Republicans think there is a better way to keep the economy healthy. Their method, said Dwight Eisenhower, is "to create an environment in which men are eager to make new jobs, to acquire new tools of production, to ... design new products and develop new markets." The tax program that...
Parysko was running down the Sherbourne Ski Trail, in all probability, to get help at the Spur Cabin, occupied by some members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, its owner. Their letter says "The final irony of fate is that he died just a few yards beyond (our) Spur Cabin . . ."The path leading some 75 yards form the trail to this cabin is marked only by tree blazes (which are as good as invisible at night) but is indicated by no sign whatever. There is but ONE sign of which I know that indicates the way to the H.M.C. cabin...
...Christmas recess it the log book in their cabin. It notes that Parysko and myself had spent seven hours trying to locate the place, and pleads for signs indicating the cabin. It is signed by both of us. Had some action been taken to adequately indicate the way to Spur Cabin, there might not have been the double fatality of a week...
...December, Parysko and I asked at the A.M.C. cabin if there were any reason for the Harvard Mountaineering Club's failure to mark the way to Spur Cabin. The answer we were given: "Those Harvard boys want privacy." They still have...
...Union Pacific Railroad, 25 miles northeast of Laramie, Wyo. Proven reserves are at least 50 million tons of iron, 12 million tons of titanium, and possibly 2 million tons of vanadium, used for strengthening steel. U.P., which owns or controls 60% of the claims, will run in a spur line to the deposits...