Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, this would cut the maximum excess profits tax to 85% from now on. In the same fashion, refunds to corporations due under excess profits tax's "carry-back" provisions, originally designed to cushion industry against reconversion losses, would be put on a current basis (i.e. they could be taken in the year the losses occur). Estimated savings and rebates: $1 billion...
Here is a departure from the accepted cinema idiom. People go to the movies today to relax in the cushion of familiarity, the familiarity of beautiful people in standard patterns. The cult of film actors, it appears, lagoon the lapse of the religion of perfection: yet it lapses, happily, in "The Enchanted Cottage...
...personage addressed, wearing a miter and a white brocaded cope with gold embroidery, walked slowly to the 700-year-old marble Chair of St. Augustine, sat gingerly down on its red cushion. With this simple act the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, last week became the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...
Many of the plants hit by the sweeping cutbacks, such as Douglas, Consolidated Vultee and Lockheed, had a cushion: some of the manpower and facilities will be shifted to making planes for the Pacific war. But for Henry Ford's Willow Run, there was nothing to soften the blow. Three days after the cutback came, Willow Run began to lay off its 22,000 workers, thousands at a time. By the end of July all will be gone. Then the vast, $100,000,000 plant will be closed up tight. WPB, caught flat-footed by the Army...
...that when this one finally [ends] it will open to all of us an untrod and unknown road on which we must travel in converting from a war economy to a peace economy." On this road, said he, the U.S. in self-interest will do its utmost to cushion the shock of Latin American reconversion, stimulate postwar trade. Said Clayton: "We recognize our responsibility in this field, and we propose to meet it, consistent with bur laws, our public opinion and a due regard for our own economy...