Word: stopgap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base, raise upwards of $1,000,000,000 a year in new taxes (TIME, June 17), Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau welcomed a thorough, time-taking overhaul of the tax system-should Congress care to stay in session long enough to do the job. The House passed the stopgap bill anyway, sent it to the restive Senate...