Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only 13 years ago, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon thought 13½% was too steep an income tax for U.S. corporations, got it reduced to 12%. Last week the President signed a tax bill under which many a corporation will pay more than half its 1941 profits in income taxes and none will pay less than...
...near, as if hundreds of cars were on the roads and lanes. I was so restless . . . . I got up and dressed and went out, up the road a little way into the fields. I could hear, faintly, how car after car changed gear as it went up the steep hill out of the town towards the road that runs west. There was a most extraordinary feeling in the air as if the whole country, from end to end, was alert and waiting. The very houses and trees and hedges seemed to be crouching down against the earth and listening...
...before any action would be taken on the price bill. Moreover, the committee's two-week needling of Leon & bill made clear that there were further delays ahead. Members would return with enough questions to last till Christmas. Only thing likely to hasten them: a price rise so steep that the entire nation yelled in pain. Then a law might be too late...
...Luftwaffe, weather-bound through most of last week, got over England's east coast long enough one night to drop paper weapons. The Germans thought that the downcurve in British morale (TIME, June 16) was steep enough so that some Britons could be persuaded into a mood of utter defeat. So the Luftwaffe scattered leaflets of pessimism...
...street-department worker, drove his twelve-ton street-roller around the curve, headed down toward the busy intersection. As usual, he shoved the gearshift into reverse. But the gears failed to mesh. He set the brakes, but already the twelve tons of steel were rolling, gathering speed down the steep grade toward the jam of cars, busses, children...