Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worth scouting for more revenue: a few tax-exempt educational and charitable organizations which persist in "glaring abuses" of the exemptions, life insurance companies which "have unintentionally been relieved of income taxes since 1946," and short-lived Hollywood corporations de signed to dodge paying big taxes. He wanted to trim corporation income taxes in the bracket between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, proposed a "moderate" tax increase on any profits that jutted beyond the $50,000 level...
When Lincoln Levison moved to Greenfield, Ill. two summers ago, the town (pop. 1,006) took to him at once. He opened a small sawmill and customers came flocking. Soon he was able to move into a trim white house with his wife and two little daughters. To wife Marjorie, Greenfield seemed "just like heaven...
...group-which takes almost two-thirds of the film-is a self-contained story so absorbingly pictured that some cinemagoers may feel a letdown when there seems nothing left to fight but the Germans. But Director Henry King makes the most of his only combat sequence: a trim, exciting pattern of re-enacted shots intercut with official U.S. and German wartime film...
...come over taxes and the new budget, which was giving concern even to some staunch Administration Democrats. Majority Leader Scott Lucas hopefully predicted a cut of $1 billion in foreign aid and $2 billion in military spending. Illinois' rising Freshman Senator Paul Douglas, a Fair Dealer, wanted to trim the budget by $4.5 billion...
Short, rumpled A. K. Humphries took over P.I.E. as president and laid the broad plans; short, trim Gene Johnson went in as assistant general manager and carried them out. They cut costs, won new business by maintaining rigid delivery schedules, turned a profit inside a month. In 1949, P.I.E. highballed 407,000 ton miles of freight across country for an estimated gross of $14,250,000, making it one of the biggest U.S. truckers. (The biggest: Associated Transport's motor freight system, with a $25.3 million gross in 1948.) But that wasn't big enough for Humphries & Johnson...