Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HIGHWAYS. Along with his housing message, Ike gave Congress notice that he did not like the highway-financing plan just voted by the House Ways & Means Committee, chaired by Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills (see below). The committee proposal to boost the federal gasoline tax by 1? a gallon to get the nearly stalled federal-state highway program fueled up again was a "step in the right direction," said Ike (he had urged a 1½ increase), but he objected to the proposal to channel about half the revenue from federal taxes on automobiles and parts into the highway trust fund...
Birrell's last name off so that the industrialist, known as a Batista supporter, would not be assassinated when his plane landed in Fidel Castro's Cuba. To the delight of Brazilians, who regard avoiding taxes as a kind of fifth freedom, Ultima Horn reported that the only reason Birrell did not want to go home was a mere matter of income tax evasion. O Globo reported a Chaloupe statement that Birrell wanted to build a $14 million electronics plant in Brazil, and that "it can only be deduced that interests that do not want to lose these...
...story last week was Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate and front runner in Boston's mayoralty campaign. Powers was not impressed by Mather's plea that the university is already losing able teachers; he was more concerned with holding down Boston's tax rate and sabotaging his political rival, Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who backed President Mather...
...public university president ($15,000 a year). But the propaganda cut deep; Mather resigned largely to "stop this personal monkey business" (he will stay through next June). To Educator Mather, it seems unlikely that culture-conscious Massachusetts will lose one of its oddest distinctions-spending less (2.32%) of the tax dollar for higher education than any other state in the Union...
...special little piece of the travel market and concentrated on it. Among the fastest growers are the nationality agencies, usually run by first-generation Americans who send aged immigrants back for a last look at the old country. Cleveland's Poznan Travel Agency, opened two years ago by Tax Consultant Joseph Kupniewski, does 90% of its thriving business with aged Polish immigrants who have saved for decades to make the trip...