Word: steeper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON -- Automobile production in January, 1942 was ordered cut today "at least" 51 per cent below output in January, 1941, by Civilian Supply Chief Leon Henderson, who warned leaders of the Industry that shortage of materials may operate to force even steeper curtailment...
...Committee asked for $1,360,300,000. But they more than made up the difference by jumping the Treasury's proposed $933,500,000 increase in corporation taxes to a whopping $1,255,200,000. It was, in short, the steepest tax bill in U. S. history-steeper by $164,900,000 than the amount Mr. Morgenthau had suggested-and a brave enough act for notoriously tax-shy Congressmen...