Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the whole process was one of mute foreboding, like a visit to a dentist or a piano teacher, the average citizen held still for the frisk and sometimes even managed a wan smile. By dint of withholding and pay-as-you-go plans, the government usually had his tax money by March anyhow. And this year, because of tax law changes in 1948, he could experience a temporary and spurious elation-of approximately 50 million taxpayers (5,000,000 fewer than last year's record total), 80% would get rebates...
...much the Treasury would stand in the way of claims for reimbursement. The Government, which got enough milk from enough mice to make a very large cheese, pretended not to notice hidden flaws in the citizen's moral fiber. It maintained a bland and jolly attitude about the whole thing and publicly assumed that every man was rushing to the mailbox with a scrupulously honest accounting of his financial status. But from behind this smiling front, it watched the populace beadily; the Internal Revenue Bureau already has 45,000 people at work, and this year added 1,950 more...
...Resources Board. Cain talked for more than six hours, scratching under his arms, hitching at his trousers, sipping milk and raising one foot after the other so that his male secretary could change his shoes. Mrs. Cain, who has filed a suit for divorce, sat in the gallery the whole time, watching her husband admiringly...
...item. Last week the item was rent control. The Administration wanted it extended until March 1951. Republicans argued instead for a wait-&-see extension to run only until July 1. Dixiecrat E. E. ("Goober") Cox of Georgia was blunter: "Continue controls for 90 days and then have the whole thing thrown out the window...
Back home after two years, he was elected checkweighman and disputes agent for his union. During the General Strike of 1926 he first showed his political mettle. In Tredegar the General Strike is still known as "Bevan's Siege." "They had the whole town in a straitjacket," recalls a Tredegar shopkeeper...