Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that year. I talked to my wife about it, but she didn't care. She always wants me to take it easy." Today, counting concert performances at $3,000 each, some 40 Met performances a season at $1,000 each, Tenor Tucker is in the $100,000 bracket. He is a big seller in the operatic record field. The latest: Starring Richard Tucker (Columbia LP), one of the finest one-man recitals on records...
...wrathful cry over the plight of Johnny Podres. Now a 1-A military draft eligible, Brooklyn's A-1 Pitcher Podres, 23, winner of two of the four victories that gave the Dodgers their first world championship last fall, spent the past three years in the 4-F bracket because of a bad back. Ever mum about his own recall to a second long tour of duty, Marine Williams fumed: "When Podres became a hero, some politicians said, 'Why isn't a big strong kid like that in the Army?' " Who creates such situations? Williams...
...many labor leaders are beginning to agree that they can not only live with time studies but profit from them. At one Chrysler assembly plant, for example, time study men watched a worker assemble a rear-view mirror and bracket at a work bench with a hand screwdriver. They replaced this method with an air-operated screwdriver and a fixture to hold bracket and mirror, thus free the worker's hands. Result: production tripled, Chrysler saved $9,000 yearly, and the worker raised his incentive pay while reducing his physical labor...
...this week's Collier's Surrey claimed that these upper-bracket rates are not strictly enforced. Congress, out of a desire to help those paying such 'fantastically high rates," is constantly creating ways for certain groups to escape from the very taxes it imposes, he asserted...
...movies) making more money than they do. One of the highest paid executives in the U.S., Darryl Zanuck was weary of handing over roughly 90% of his earnings to the tax collectors. As an independent, he can coin money in the gravy-train, 25% long-term capital-gains bracket...