Word: abolishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaitskell, onetime professional economist, retorted with yet another piece of pie-in-the-sky: "There will be no increase in the standard rate of income tax under a Labor government so long as normal peacetime conditions continue." And from London, Labor Party headquarters chipped in: "We are going to abolish sales tax on such essentials as clothes, furniture and many household goods." In shocked response, newspapers, Tory candidates-and voters-all over Britain began to echo the question: "How will it all be paid for?'' Macmillan pressed his advantage. "A gross piece of electioneering," he sniffed. "They...
...University agreed to accept loan monies offered under the NDEA and to administer the required oath to students requesting loans, in order to applaud and encourage "the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the ... Act." But President Pusey, in a letter supporting Senator Kennedy's bill to abolish the oath requirement, also called the oath "rude and unworthy of Congress," "a direct personal affront" to the colleges, and urged that Kennedy's committee recommend the "elimination of this odious section...
...month-old autonomous state of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew's puritanical new administration, after banning pinball games and jukebox parlors, last week set out to end polygyny (except among Moslems) and to abolish the widespread local Chinese practice of concubinage...
...Devaluate the peseta and abolish the multiple exchange rates. (Mercury exporters get 31 pesetas for a dollar, tungsten exporters 90. Paris black-marketeers 60. The official rate...
Even the European Coal & Steel Community, long the shining practical example of a European readiness to surrender some sovereignty, has come upon hard times. For its first six years, its member nations (France, Germany, Italy and Benelux) went along cheerfully with its expansionist schemes to abolish coal and steel tariffs and to outlaw cartels. But in the past six months, slackening European demand for coal, plus U.S. competition, has stacked up 30 million tons of unsold coal (TIME, March 2 et seq.). Fortnight ago, when the High Authority of the community ordered its members to restrict the production and import...