Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repairs for recent hurricane damage, then uncorked his capital levy. A one-shot tax,* it requires payments equal to 3% of property assessed at more than $5,000, 1% of business capital over $5,000, 10% of the average monthly earnings of professional men, $10,000 from every big sugar mill, $1 for every head of cattle from owners with herds of more than...
...raising test flights. Careless of their own lives, they tried to duplicate the stresses that had destroyed Yoke Peter. As Sir Lionel described it, "they were going as close to the tiger as possible, hoping it would not get them." Able Victor did not crash; neither did Comet Yoke Sugar, whose fuel tanks were pressure-strained to see if they would explode...
Cinnamon Sinner (Tony Bennett; Columbia). "She's got sugar-dipped kisses and cherry-tipped charms," warbles Tony hoarsely, and goes on to rave about the lady's other sweet-flavored assets...
...nation that loves its coffee was treated last week to one of the muddiest cups yet brewed. The Federal Trade Commission filed a formal complaint against the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and eight of its members. The charge: restraining coffee trading and thereby causing prices to rise out of all proportion to supply and demand. As it had before (TIME, Aug. 9), FTC hit hard at the exchange's "restrictive" contract, which permits trading only in "Santos 4" coffee, an average grade shipped from Brazil's port of Santos and accounting for 10% of U.S. consumption...
...possible merger with Studebaker-Packard, one of Romney's first acts was to announce that "there are no mergers under way either directly or indirectly." The son of an old Mormon family and still a Mormon church reader, Romney earned his first money at eleven, harvesting sugar. He worked his way through Salt Lake City's Latter-day Saints' College, did the traditional Mormon missionary stint in England for two years, and then returned to Utah for further study. In 1929 he attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. At the same time, he worked for Massachusetts...