Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich war worker would still get clipped for his newly inflated income. But, while the new-poor would get a break now, the new-rich would get one later, since they would have paid taxes on their war-inflated earnings the year they were earned, would not be stuck with them in peacetime, when they might be making much less...
...Year. Another second-front mass rally was held in Trafalgar Square; 60,000 attended. Editor William Rust of the Daily Worker read a message from 500,000 C.I.O. workers, another ("What are we waiting for?") from onetime Cockney Charlie Chaplin. The small but vocal Communist Party, which hitherto has stuck by the Churchill all-out war policy, scattered second-front leaflets and chalked up signs all over London. A workers' band in black & red uniforms perched on the top of the Square's air-raid shelter and played the International and God Save the King. Ten munitions workers...
Though their riveted M35 sustained some shell hits, no rivets bounced about inside. Main fault in the tanks: an incendiary bullet, stuck in the pencil-thin crevice between the revolving turret and hull, froze the turret tight. The tankers unfroze the turret with an acetylene torch. (This defect has been corrected in the newer M-45, which have a collar over the crevice...
...Most steel mills are stuck in the high excess-profits tax brackets, and profits plopped accordingly. First sizable steelmaker to report was Wheeling Steel, which estimated net at only $750,000 v. $2,700,000 last year. Continental's profits were down 28% to $234,000. Wall Street dopesters expect giant U.S. Steel to report only $6,500,000, barely enough to cover preferred dividends and far below last year...
Saturdays Private Gene Johnson of the Mountaineers put on a "whoop-de-do" that jammed the noisy little station to the doors. Mountaineers generally ran to hoedowns, Regulars to sentimental cowboy tunes, Alabamans did takeoffs on hairtonic commercials, Gophers stuck to band music. In March Funnyman Joe Brown blew into camp, gave two and three shows...