Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woodland firebugs are not daft in the sense that their urban colleagues are. But they have almost nothing in the way of diversion. Southern stocks of game and fish are dwindling; hillbillies have no money for movies. So the men whittle, talk, sit-or start fires...
...Fight for Life (Dudley Digges, Myron McCormick, Storrs Haynes, Will Geer, Dorothy Adams, Dorothy Urban, Effie Anderson; TIME, March...
...Fight for Life (Dudley Digges, Myron McCormick, Storrs Haynes, Will Geer, Dorothy Adams, Dorothy Urban, Effie Anderson; TIME, March...
Into Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week swarmed 750 members of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers. Coming from 70 U. S. cities, they were hornet-mad about a politico-economic national scandal. The scandal is that urban property taxes are so high that they drive population to suburbs, so that city real estate and city governments face bankruptcy together. Of the gross annual income of $7,000,000,000 derived from U. S. real estate, $4,500,000,000 goes for taxes...
...heads-I-win-tails-you-lose proposal would base tax valuations on earning power of the property. Thus unimproved land having no annual income would pay no taxes. Sometimes called the "British System," it would up the value of vacant land, cause further urban decentralization because it puts no penalty on speculators' withholding city land from...