Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DEPRECIATION DEDUCTIONS. In deducting capital-facility costs against taxes, businessmen (including farmers) will have a choice between several write-off rates. Under the rules prevailing in recent years, deductions had to be spread more or less uniformly over the "useful life" of the facility. Under the new rules, the businessman can recover up to two-thirds of the cost tax-free during the first half of the "useful life...
...many businesses, such an arrangement will shorten the risk on and therefore encourage investments in new plant and equipment. The Administration regards faster write-offs as one of the "cornerstone" law's two great contributions to the nation's long-range economic growth, the other being the tax break for stockholders...
...upon the children, and with all the curses which are written in the Law. Cursed be he by day, and cursed be he by night. Cursed be he in sleeping, and cursed be he in waking . . . And we warn you, there shall no man speak to him, no man write to him nor show any kindness to him . . . nor come within four cubits of him, nor read any paper composed or written...
PILOT PETE, by Alan Villiers (Scribner; $2.50), is about a frolicsome Antarctic porpoise and his marine pals, told with customary authority by one of the few living men who still go to sea in sailing ships and write about...
...Write!" snapped the Emperor, and instantly a flood of words poured from the imperial mouth-natural, conversational words spoken with such intimate intensity as to give the illusion that the recipients of the letters were entering the room one by one, hearing the Emperor's orders with their own ears, and then passing from the scene like ghosts. The toiling secretary, scribbling like mad in a desperate shorthand, never dared to interrupt the one-man show, which ended only when the Emperor abruptly shot from the room, took an hour's nap. and ultimately returned with "an overfilled...