Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tricky way to turn the Government's prospective $2.9 billion deficit into a $1.7 billion surplus for fiscal 1949-50 was proposed by Arkansas' Wilbur D. Mills, a Democratic member of the House Ways & Means Committee. Mills introduced a bill which would require corporations to pay all their 1949 taxes before July 1, 1950, instead of in four quarterly pay-ments-thus adding an estimated $4.6 billion to tax receipts for the next fiscal year, which ordinarily would not have been paid until the following fiscal year. The Treasury took the idea under advisement, while G.O.P. lawmakers rightly...
Streets of Laredo (Paramount) spins a drawling Technicolored yarn about three Texas badmen who are buddies. Two of them (William Holden and William Bendix) eventually go straight and get jobs as Texas Rangers. The third, MacDonald Carey, goes right on rustling cattle and robbing banks. All three, in one way or another, get romantically entangled with a pale-lipped chit of a cowgirl (Mona Freeman) who takes a pretty nearsighted view of right & wrong...
...Hammond was in a tight spot. Adventurous Ham, who had rocketed to the planet Venus to hunt xixtchil, a scarce, rejuvenating drug, searched desperately for a way to save himself and his lovely companion, Pat Burlingame. They had been backed into a fearsome dusky canyon by the "doughpot," one of the most monstrous creatures on the whole planet. A white mass of nauseous protoplasm weighing several tons, the doughpot had neither intelligence nor any fixed form: it just rolled itself instinctively toward anything edible...
...assigned to his girl students for English composition, his comments on their papers. Other biographers have touched lightly on the tragedies in Emerson's family; Rusk tells in detail of his brother Bulkeley, who lived past middle age without developing mentally; of his brother Edward, whose mind gave way briefly at the moment of his greatest promise, and who was taken to the asylum by Emerson himself; of another brother, Charles, supposedly the most gifted of the family, who died on the eve of his marriage and at whose grave, according to one account, Emerson burst into a short...
...half of marriage), Emerson revolted against what he called the "official goodness" of his position. The arguments that led to his resigning his pastorate (his refusal to administer the Lord's Supper) seem somewhat unreal in this account; more clearly traced is his growing conviction that the only way he could be a good minister was to leave the ministry...