Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ayen in bedraggled St. Germain, France, stands a bright, pink, three-story schoolhouse. In its library are $25,000 worth of books. Its music room has an electric phonograph and a big collection of classical records. Its basement hums with lathes and its upper floors are alive with the clatter of typewriters and sewing machines. Last week the school awarded its first graduation, certificates-to WACs, for their proficiency in beauty culture...
...vista in Christendom" (one-ninth of a mile). Such superlatives are characteristic of St. John's, which when finished will be the world's second biggest church (bigger: St. Peter's in the Vatican), and the biggest of Gothic design. Still to come (see cuts): the upper half of two west towers, one more transept, and part of another, a great (402 ft.) central tower...
...Gasoline is forced through and out of the perforated pipes with tremendous force. When ignited (by men running alongside the pipes with torches), a wall of flame roars from the jets with the noise and smoke of a forest fire. The intense heat first vaporizes the fuel in the upper (feeder) pipe, causing the smoke to subside, then burns off the soupiest...
...chief beneficiaries. It proposes individual tax exemptions that would free a family of four from all taxes on incomes up to $2,750. But it also proposes to raise $12 billion (about ten times prewar) from the individual income tax-which would mean that tax rates in upper brackets could be reduced very little. It proposes to abolish the excess-profits tax postwar, and provide tax relief for new and small business, but still to raise $7 billion revenue from corporation taxes-which would mean keeping the corporate income tax at around...
Soon the Viceroy will return to New Delhi. There he will reportedly take three steps: 1) release all Indian political leaders from internment and otherwise restore civil liberties; 2) call a joint session of the Legislative Assembly and Council of State (upper house of the Indian Legislature) and announce London's new proposals for breaking the long-standing deadlock between Indian nationalists and the British Raj; 3) meet with Indian political leaders of all parties to discuss the proposals...