Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TAP ROOTS - James Street - Dial...
...this makes it imperative to tap new sources of scrap. But the Government is still loth to be anywhere near tough enough about requisitioning hoarded industrial scrap-unused machinery, etc., that low-prioritied industries feel is worth more to them than any kind of reasonable price bonus. It still hopes to get the added scrap through patriotism rather than pressure or price. Last week it launched the biggest hoop-la scrap-collection drive ever, through a new American Industries Salvage Committee. U.S. industry anted up $2,000,000 for paid advertising, sought to get 3,000,000 added tons from...
...Tap Roots is exciting as history and as a story. The little-known history it highlights is the rise and bloody fall of the Free State of Jones (novelized as Lebanon), a county in southeastern Mississippi which seceded from Mississippi soon after Mississippi seceded from the Union. Like many Southerners, most of Lebanon's inhabitants were mild but firm abolitionists. Lebanon's leaders despised Jefferson Davis, the big planters, the innumerable fire-eating lawyers, preachers, sword-rattlers and politicians who helped make secession and war inevitable...
...orchestra is unique this summer not only for its large content of clarinets and flutes, but also because the Summer School girls have invaded this traditionally male group for the first time. Moreover, it has piano talent far in excess of usability, and it has on tap a harpist with whom it will rehearse shortly. The weakness of the orchestra lies in a lack of double-basses, only one being now available...
What of a Sales Tax? Although the committee had killed the sales tax, agitation for its reinstatement began immediately. Both in & out of Congress many felt that such a tax was necessary to make up the difference asked by the Treasury, and, more important, to tap the inflationary danger of increased wages...