Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...help pay for its colossal war insurance, Congress passed a tax bill to add another billion dollars to the five-and-a-half-billion-dollar tax load of the U. S., to make 2,000,000 more U. S. citizens pay income taxes...
...Education, which has long conducted a program of vocational training, annually turns out an approximate 500,000 men skilled as lathe operators, welders, aircraft mechanics, machinists, sheet metal workers, etc. The President wants 750,000 more workers added to the program. There are already 1,030 schools, which could add late evening and night time classes, turn out 1,250,000 skilled workers a year...
...Free Press to recall the papers, but virtually the entire edition had been gobbled up by wild-eyed Windsor citizens. In outlying communities, police and vigilantes chased newsboys off the streets. A copy went to Ottawa, where Dominion censors stared at it aghast, took up their pens to add the Free Press to the list of banned U. S. periodicals...
...profit his road made last year (M. & O, lost $440,924) to a respect able figure by getting a longer haul on a larger portion of the two lines' traffic. Al ready benefiting from the movement of industries to the South, he hopes to add more manufactured goods to the lumber, petroleum, bananas, etc. which are , the standbys of his new road. Now 60, not old as railroad presidents go, he has been a railroad president longer than any other U. S. railroader except Baltimore & Ohio's venerable ''Uncle Dan" Willard. He is also a pioneer...
...Britain will maintain her oil supply no U. S. oilmen knew for sure last week. With Norway's tanker fleet to add to her own, she may well run shipments from the Iranian fields around the Cape of Good Hope, stand the extra expense of the long haul rather than spend exchange in the Western Hemisphere. But Standard Oil's (N. J.) big refinery in Aruba, Royal Dutch Shell's huge plant in Curaçao, both in the Dutch West Indies, with a haul almost three times shorter to British ports, may also be in line...