Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain could loosen its belt. Only thrice did he pick up the little teacup from its green tray and fortify himself with sips of rum and milk.* Once he drew a laugh as he absently rubbed his high, sun-browned bald dome, announced a reduction in the purchase tax on hair-waving and drying machinery...
There was class bias in the Dalton budget. Purchase taxes on pots, crockery, blankets, mattresses were reduced or removed, but not on cars or furs. Income-tax rates for a married man with two chil dren and earning $1,200 a year went down from 3% to nothing; for a man in similar circumstances earning $4,000 a year, from 30% to 24%; for the man earning $10,000 a year, only from...
...bomb on New York City should convince skeptics that the atomic bomb would be nearly as unpleasant for concrete-housed Americans as it was for bamboo-sheltered Japanese. He stresses that the only inaccuracy in his description, which includes 300,000 killed and a host of wounded that would tax hospitals as far as St. Louis, is that the bombs will "never again come in ones or twos...
...Sent to the White House a bill forbidding Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo to: 1) tax canned music, 2) ban amateurs, 3) featherbed on U.S. radio...
...Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill, introduced last November with President Truman's blessing, but roundly damned by the American Medical Association, would be financed mainly by a 3% payroll tax on salaries up to $3,600 (to be shared equally by employe and employer). It would cover the worker's dependents, would provide for: 1) family, specialist and consultant doctor services; 2) major and minor surgery; 3) maternity care; 4) hospitalization (up to 60 days a year per person); 5) dental examinations, cleansings and extractions; 6) nursing care in hospital and home; 7) eye care...