Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessman looking for a new plant site cannot deduct travel expenses from taxable income; such travel is a capital expenditure. But a businessman who travels on U.S. Government work can deduct the entire cost...
Returning to Belo Horizonte broadened and polished by travel, he married the pretty, dark-eyed daughter of a wealthy politician. The marriage was happy. "He has not always been a perfect husband.'' Sarah Kubitschek said secretly. "But after all. perfection is dull." The Kubitscheks have two children. Márcia and Maristela, both twelve. Márcia was born to them; they adopted Maristela five years later, to spare Márcia an only child's loneliness...
...lackey of big business and, in a characteristic display of party-line acrobatics, endorsed him for President. Outlawed by Congress in 1947 (Kubitschek was among the Deputies who voted in favor of the ban), the party still has an estimated 60,000 members and many non-Communists fellow-travel its line. Eager for votes, Kubitschek failed to reject the Red endorsement-a piece of opportunism that has already made trouble for him and is likely to make more...
Vintage Rotgut. For those who want to hear the original version, there is a new Threepenny Opera album in German (Vanguard), fascinating largely because it shows how difficult it is for vintage rotgut to travel. The "chamber orchestra" of the august Vienna State Opera bravely buckles down to the hurdy-gurdy score with its plinky-plink banjos, but it is played with excruciating slowness. The star is a charming Viennese nightclub chanteuse named Liane, who sounds less like Polly Peachum than an operetta shopgirl mooning over an archduke. The record does have its high spots, notably the duet between...
LOWER PULLMAN FARES will be tried in an experiment to increase off-season travel. ICC has given Pullman Co. permission to cut fares (until April 30) on berths, roomettes and compartments as much as 40% on 15 railroads operating west of Chicago...