Word: ups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>In Missouri, the Stark-Clark feud boiled up toward Hatfield-McCoy temperature. Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, New Deal 1940 candidate for Senator, and present Senator Bennett Champ Clark began active electioneering for control of the Missouri delegation to the 1940 Democratic convention.
Humpty France and Dumpty Germany continued sitting on their walls last week. Neither had a great fall and neither required more horses or men. The French did some digging in and dragged up some heavy artillery back of Perl at their supposedly "weak" corner by the Luxembourg frontier, where the...
*Not until December 1917 was the Allied Maritime Transport Council set up, and it did not start functioning until March 1918. Subordinate to it were a score of committees on food, munitions, raw materials. But all these bodies were purely advisory, had no authority to enforce their decisions.
...months. Meanwhile, to defray the increased costs, both civilian and military, taxes went up. The so-called extraordinary income tax was raised from 2% to 5% on low incomes and to 15% on incomes above $155 monthly earned by male noncombatants of military age. Other new taxes included the upping of postal rates, increased levies on telephones and radios, cigars and cigarets...
Economist Keynes addressed to the semiofficial London Times two articles to which that august organ gave full space and a respectful editorial. His idea was that Britain should apply a forced loan scheme to all her income earners. As military production goes up in the Government-financed war cycle, production...