Word: doubledealing
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He more than doubled the number of playgrounds and swimming pools. Among the items on his agenda: a huge boys' club for the city's worst slum, the "Irish Channel"; the rebuilding of old Shakespeare Park in the heart of the Negro district.
Although its premature disclosure was a sensation, Hugh Dalton's budget itself was as quiet as a Treasury mouse. Besides the liquor taxes (see above), it sought Government revenues from football pools and dog racing (but not from horse racing). The profits tax was doubled.*
A speculating fraternity, vaguely tagged as "gamblers," has become the Administration's favorite whipping boy for high commodity prices (TIME, Oct. 27). But speculators could scarcely be blamed for the high price of tobacco, which almost doubled since prewar. In tobacco, as in most commodities, the villain was demand...
The Sky Queen's captain-a boyish-looking, 33-year-old ex-U.S. Navy pilot named Charles Martin-decided what to do. While he still had gasoline for almost three hours' flight, he doubled back toward the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which" was on station as...
The following two years, 1938-40, are still remembered by ordinary Russians as the best of their post-revolutionary lives, because in these years they were better housed, fed and clothed than before or since. But the experts found: ¶Despite glowing Soviet reports of enormous industrial gains, it was...