Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apples grow big and sweet, and the Calvados (apple brandy) is a potable that is more in demand than the local water. In the town one morning last week the biggest bell in the church tower began to peal. It was a familiar but urgent tocsin of alarm. Government tax collectors had been sighted. The revenuers were looking for illegal Calvados and unlicensed stills...
Ordinary Liberty. Like many another village in France's northern apple country, Bazouges felt that it had not yet been truly "liberated." Before the war, the people could make as much tax-free Calvados as they wanted for local consumption. The Germans had decreed that each orchardist could distill only ten liters a year-hardly enough to wet the sale of a good heifer. The postliberation French government had not only failed to repeal the silly law, it had even tried to enforce...
...petroleum code fostered a billion-dollar industry, Colombia's confusing, ultra-nationalist oil laws had crippled efforts to develop resources. It often took ten years to get an exploration concession through Colombian courts. After that, the million dollars spent on drilling a new well would be subject to tax whether oil was found or not. Extra-legal riders of one sort or another jacked royalties as high as 25%; the total government take, in taxes and royalties, sometimes ran over half the value of a company's net revenue. "Colombia," growled an oilman in Bogota, "is the graveyard...
...companies or groups are ever allowed to make money on University grounds, in order to preserve Harvard's tax-free status, according to Dean Watson's statement...
...present form the bill, H 442, would deprive of tax exemption any private school or college in Massachusetts that employe a faculty member who advocates the overthrow of the government by force or violence...