Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About a thousand miles to the east, in China, the Japs stalled again in their drive down the Hankow-Canton railway from Hengyang and the twin drive toward Kweilin, where the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force base was threatened. The Japs' backing & filling, while increasing their already preponderant power, was puzzling. Of one thing observers were sure: it was now or never for the Japs. Within 60 days the Ledo-Burma supply route should be open. Thereafter, the Japs' last chance to cut China in half and wipe out U.S. A.A.F. bases near the China coast would be lost...
...Beard was asked to serve Japan as an adviser on municipal reconstruction. Nine thousand miles from home, the Beards saw U.S. history in a new perspective, felt a fresh enthusiasm for writing it. On the ship coming back they sketched the outline on big pieces of foolscap. In the twin studies of their new Milford home, looking out on the rolling Connecticut hills, they wrote The Rise of American Civilization, America in Midpassage, and The American Spirit - four volumes that told and interpreted the whole story in 3,362 lucid pages...
Today will see Company C meeting Adams House and Company E playing Lowell. On Monday, Companies C and A will clash while the Bellboys will meet Company C in the other portion of the daily twin bill. Chief Dunlap says all games are to start at 3:45 o'clock and postponements will be played on Wednesdays. Team Won Lost Pct. Company C 6 1 .857 Company E 5 2 .714 Company D 5 3 .625 Company A 4 3 .573 NROTC 3 4 .428 Adams House 3 4 .428 Lowell House 2 6 .250 Company...
Both the Ruml plan and the Twin Cities plan it is estimated would raise $18 billion a year in tax revenue. But Ruml plans to raise this amount or more only when the national income passes $140 billion a year. So he counts on his individual income tax to raise 72% of the total. The Twin Cities plan proposes to raise $18 billion from a national income of only $120 billion. So it counts on its individual income tax-only 6% lower than Ruml's-to raise 28% of the total. A comparison of the two proposals (in millions...
...Twin Cities Ruml Customs & Misc. 700 500 Estate & Gift Taxes 500 500 Excise Taxes 4,000 3,000 Corporation Taxes 5,000 1,000 Sales Tax 2,800 - Individual Income Tax 5,000 13,000 Total...