Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things could only get worse; state invoices and employees were going unpaid. Last week Williams gave up, reluctantly signed into law a new tax bill: a tiny increase in the state's business activities tax and the 1% so-called use...
Though some legislators pretended that the new law would mean the end of Michigan's troubles, most thought otherwise. Lawyers are bound to argue that the use tax is really nothing more than an increase in the sales tax, which the Michigan constitution places at a maximum of 3%. The "solution" could amount to no final fiscal solution for Michigan-but very probably it had solved once and for all the G.O.P.'s problem of Soapy Williams...
Though De Gaulle did not use the phrase "self-determination," that seemed clearly his meaning. Such a development would be anathema to French rightists who have loudly insisted on complete "integration" of Algeria into France and who, so far, have been able to veto any more liberal solution to the rebellion. But last week, with all Paris caught up in enthusiasm for Ike and convinced-overoptimistically-that Ike had promised U.S. support to De Gaulle's new plan, rightist outcries were uncharacteristically restrained...
...being forced to grapple with the fact that they live in a plasma universe. Said M.I.T. Physicist William P. Allis: "It is as if a people had lived all their lives in the mountains and then had come down to the edge of the ocean. Before they could use sea water or navigate through it, they would have to learn some things that would be perfectly obvious to anyone who had lived by the sea." Last week the National Science Foundation announced grants of $500,000 to M.I.T. and $300,000 to Harvard to help humans understand the plasma ocean...
Happy at McCall's, scholarly-looking Herb Mayes works 65 hours a week including Sundays, dashes up and down the halls, teases attractive young lady staffers ("Salute me,baby!"). He has multiplied the number of products in McCall's "Use-Tested" program, is installing a beauty clinic and textile and chemical labs, plans to test food products, toilet goods and cosmetics in an attempt to catch up with Good Housekeeping's seal of approval testing program. Indeed, Herb Mayes's plans for McCall's have few limits: he predicts he will overtake the Ladies...