Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economically the taxation of undistributed corporation profits appears to be sound, from the point of view of mitigating the severity of booms, and consequent depressions. The Times editorial's fear that the tax would stunt the growth of American industry and restrict the opportunities for new employment seems silly in view of the fact that the receivers of dividends would still have the opportunity to reinvest these profits through the ordinary channels of the investment market, the only difference being that this market, and not the views of the management of the corporations, should decide in what industries to invest...
...World's Outstanding Aviator" for 1935. Famed among flyers as perhaps the ablest flying-boat pilot on earth, but practically unknown to the U. S. public until Pan American began its methodical march across the Pacific (TIME, Dec. 2), Captain Musick has never been known to stunt a commercial plane, has had no accidents in more than two decades of flying...
Divorced. James F. Goodman, railway conductor & nudist; by Susie Wise Goodman; in Los Angeles. Grounds: desertion. Smartly attired, she explained to the bench that her "health wedding" to Nudist Goodman on the shores of Lake Elsinore (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933) was a "publicity stunt," that they had previously been wed, fully clothed, in New Mexico...
...Washington occurred the newsgathering stunt of the week. National Broadcasting Company announcers took a microphone to the top of the Washington Monument, invited visitors to broadcast their opinions of the swollen Potomac below, solemnly maintained it was purely by chance that two Negro hymn singers showed up, sang Deep River...
...Diego, Calif., a proposal for a nudist colony as a publicity stunt for the California Pacific International Exposition drew a protest from the Braille Club for the blind of San Diego...