Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advocated that "in general the tax program should aim to put, the greater burden on the well-to-do, but in this emergency it is important to cut down consumption of the masses." Taxation of the lower income groups is more effective in reducing consumption than taxation of the upper income class. Controlled inflation may even be necessary to bid up the prices on resources necessary for the defense effort...
...three subterranean levels, one passes completely out of the period style of the upper rooms into the stacks, of the very latest design, which will accomodate the great majority of the present total of 10,000 books. Illuminated by blue tubular lights, the stacks are made to attract bequests from private collectors since a section of the shelves can be set off and made into a separate room devoted entirely, to one collection...
...seriously narrows the scope of the new program, an investigation of how it might be solved seems in order. Drawing on the regular scholarship fund, which seems the most obvious solution, would doubtless prove to be unsatisfactory, since these funds are already inadequate. Of the four hundred and fifty upper-classmen on the Dean's List who last year applied for scholarship aid, one hundred and fifty were turned down. Further demands would simply make it harder for everyone...
...entire upper level of the spacious Copley Plaza ballroom will be transformed into a typical South American bar with plenty of space to lounge about and watch the many stage and screen stars perform during the evening...
Bruening was succeeded by Franz von Papen, who in turn paved the way for Hitler. To the last, the scholarly bachelor protested against the Nazi mass-appeal he abhorred and could not understand: "The tendency to regard politics from the emotional viewpoint . . . must never get the upper hand of cool deliberation or there will be an end to Germany...