Word: zircon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles of some semi-recognizable showbiz sickies. Among them are a platinum blonde (Sharon Tate) who makes nudies to pay for her husband's stay in a sanatorium; a young singer (Patty Duke) who later turns to bedding down with strangers; and a brassy voiced Broadway zircon in the rough (Susan Hayward...
Clifford Frondel, professor of Mineralogy, has investigated the synthesis of rich minerals as tourmaline and zircon under moderate temperatures and pressures...
...liability, with the restriction that the allowance cannot in any year exceed 50% of the taxable income from the property. Yearly cost to the Treasury: about $1 billion. Similar allowances apply to natural-gas wells and, at less generous rates, to most kinds of mineral deposits, from antimony to zircon. What is wrong with the arrangement, as tax reformers see it, is that the owner can keep on taking the deduction indefinitely, even after he has fully recovered his capital outlays, while in most other types of business, an asset can be depreciated (written off against taxable income) only...