Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's mind. Moviedom's tax-bitten stars thought they had found a sure-or almost sure-way out of their troubles in the high tax brackets. If they struck oil, they could deduct 50% to 75% of the drilling expenses from their income, and later deduct 27½% of their annual gross from the well, as "depletion." Moreover, they could sell the well later and pay only a long-term capital gains (25%) tax on the profit. If the well was dry, they could write off the whole cost as a loss, thus cut down taxable income...
...castle servants and Mrs. Tennant, dies the groaning old world of aristocratic England. Stuffing the precious notebooks into his striped-pants pocket, Charley Raunce boldly seats himself in the dead man's high chair at the head of the servants' table, determined to carry on a way of life that actually has ceased to exist. He is now "Mr. Raunce," butler-king of the castle; as he surveys the long table-the older servants mourning the dear departed, the housemaids coy and giggly-life takes on a new shape. "And the wicked shall flourish even as a green...
...Way to Power. Actually, no real biography of Stalin is yet possible. How did he feel when his lifelong colleagues were sentenced to death in the Moscow trials? What did he say when his treaty partner, Hitler, attacked Russia? No one in a position to speak freely knows, and until such questions are answered, all a biographer can do is to rework the public record. Biographer Deutscher, an ex-Communist who now writes for British weeklies, has done this with taste and scholarship. Though less exciting and brilliant than Trotsky's acrid biography of Stalin, Deutscher's book...
...Way to Empire. Stalin deliberately cultivated the role of the featureless party functionary. He had no private vices; he loved neither money nor pleasure, neither drink nor women. His only vice was public: an insatiable lust for power. This he cultivated with a talent incomparable in modern history, and in a way which certainly contradicts Trotsky's intellectualistic verdict that Stalin was a mere mediocrity. Moreover, his uncanny coolness with the Nazis at the gates of Moscow showed that, whatever else he might be, he was a leader of titanic strength...
...parole violator from California. In Salt Lake City, Escaped Convict Allen J. Carbis, returning to the Utah State Prison after voluntarily calling up the warden to say "I'm coming home," explained: "I had no right as a man or a convict to let him down that way...