Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shillings on the pound (in the U. S. that would be 371 cents on the dollar) for incomes above $625 a year. That rate will remain, but to make conscription of manpower more palatable to the lower classes, the Government also made a gesture of conscripting wealth. Surtaxes on incomes from $10,000 to $40,000 were raised 5%, on those above $40,000, 10%. Sample taxes: on a childless married man's income...
...have been having a hard time smoothing out their stroke according to the Cornell Daily Sun, but a wealth of good material puts them in live in a successful season. Most of the defeats under which the Cornell eight is laboring, such as poor timing and ragged control of the slides, are sings of an early season crew, and they can soon be ironed...
Italian explanations of why it had become "necessary" to take over Albania were more grimly humorous than usual. Mountainous Albania, about the size of Vermont, was already an Italian economic dependency. With its population of only 1,000,000, with few industries, no railroads, precious little natural wealth, Albania could not plausibly be pictured as a menace to powerful Fascist Italy, but some attempt was made to do so. Even more ludicrous were the Fascist press claims that: 1) Italians were showing their undying love for the Albanians; 2) King Zog, heretofore an unusually obliging Italian puppet, had recently shown...
...feel it a shame that an individual who has outstanding un-American qualities as Granville Hicks and also who has a wealth of knowledge of the Communist situation that it would be a catastrophe that his services would be lost to the Communist party...
...Because of "this torturing, inevitable nightmare," Guy de Maupassant fled the capital. M. Eiffel smiled, gave his personal fortune to finish the Tower, after Government funds ran out when it was one-fourth completed. The Tower attracted nearly two million cash customers in its first year, brought its builder wealth and made him an officer in the Legion of Honor...