Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this unexpected delay is that it has been made necessary to extend negotiations between the Army and the Business school in respect to the details of maintaining the unit here after it has been inducted. It is understood that negotiations have been relaunched this week on a new tack...
...What tack would the U.S. take in the months to come? If the occupation of French North Africa had posed a thorny politico-moral issue, still unsolved, it was nothing compared to the complications which would arise with, say, a Balkan invasion-on which Russia would most assuredly have to be consulted. Until now, Russia has not shown her hand-a fact compounded of Soviet secrecy and a negative Anglo-American policy. Whether or not such a Balkan adventure was ever contemplated, there was urgent reason right now for an Anglo-American political understanding with Russia, and the means...
...lower exemptions for income taxes to $1,000 instead of $3,000, 2) raise the normal tax rate from 2 to 4%, 3) start the mild surtaxes at $5,000 instead of $20,000, 4) raise the normal corporation tax from 2 to 6%, 5) tack on an excess-profits tax which seems beneficent by 1943 standards...
High spots: Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake sing, in appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower...
...another angle, its farm bloc is primed for an attack on farm ceiling prices (see p. 77). There will be other difficulties: higher taxation and compulsory savings will inevitably reduce the amount of normal, voluntary savings. It may thus be that Jimmy Byrnes will be forced to take another tack: gradual breaks in the price ceilings and a controlled inflation. So more and more the question arises: What manner of man is this, who is face to face with so many and such awesome problems...