Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once a group of Congressmen found themselves in agreement with a Brain Truster. President Roosevelt and Treasury experts had argued that to adjust the proposed tax so that corporations might put by some of their profits as a cushion against hard times would decrease its yield below the required $620,000,000. Last week the House Ways & Means subcommittee, assigned to write the bill, whipped out a graduated schedule of rates which it claimed would permit corporate cushions and still bring in all the money the President and Treasury wanted. Its scale: a 15% tax on the first...
...several days' cogitation even the gloomiest alarmist felt less anxiety over the enactment of an undivided profits tax. Part of this reassurance came from the fact that the Ways & Means Committee members stuck to their idea that industry must be allowed to build up some reserves as a cushion against Depression...
Jiggling atop a velvet cushion on the bier of King George, there passed through the streets of London last week, The Crown-with its 309 carat diamond, one of the "Stars of Africa"; its ruby big as a hen's egg from the Crown of Edward the Black Prince: the Stuart Sapphire from the Crown of Charles II: the pearl eardrops of Queen Elizabeth: the sapphire Edward the Confessor wore in his Coronation Ring. Great officials of the Kingdom were in utmost consternation when they noticed belatedly that The Crown's topping of a Maltese cross set with...
...Forty-eight-year-old William F. ("Willie") Hoppe, grey-haired boy wonder of Billiards in 1898, 15-time world champion at 18.2 balkline billiards, three-time champion at 18.1 balkline billiards, current cushion caroms champion, in a challenge match against loud & confident Welker Cochran, to whom he was runner-up in the tournament at Chicago last November (TIME, Dec. 2): the world's championship at three-cushion billiards (in which the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball), a title for which he has campaigned diligently since...
...trim blue suit and white collar the widow of General Turba, one of Italy's World War heroes, next presented the velvet cushion and Queen Elena, taking the two iron rings, dropped them into her handbag. Then in a low voice she broadcast: "These rings, symbols of our first joys, symbols of our extreme renunciation now, make the purest offering to our country. With them we invoke before God victory for the young sons of Italy who defend rights which are sacred. We pray for the triumph of Roman civilization in Africa...