Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...stubbornness for a state tax on personal incomes. After things went from bad to worse, he accepted a makeshift nuisance tax on such items as beer, cigarettes and medicines, which will help the state get through 1960. Michigan's voters will have to tackle the problem anew this fall...
Last week Komsomolskaya Pravda offered a partial accounting. The Soviet Commission Investigating German Atrocities had taken testimony from one Nina Pietruszkowna, a young Polish interpreter for the Italian command, who said that after Mussolini's fall in 1943, Nazi authorities in Lvov asked Italian troops and officers to swear allegiance to Hitler Germany and continue the war against the Soviet Union, and that those who refused were arrested. "More than 2,000 Italians were arrested, and the Nazis shot them all," she testified. "Among those shot were five generals and 45 officers, many of whom I knew personally...
...reunion of the Latin and Greek churches that had been uneasily agreed upon at the Council of Florence 14 years earlier, Isidore said Mass in St. Sophia as the Turks were gathering to batter down the walls. But disputatious followers of the monk Gennadius boycotted the church. After the fall of the city, Mohammed rewarded Gennadius by appointing him the first Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek church under Islam. And one of Gennadius' first acts was to repudiate the Council of Florence's attempt to heal the 400-year-old East-West schism...
...charting the future, Knowles makes a key assumption of his own: that the U.S. knows enough about its economy and has built so many safeguards that it will not again fall into a major depression similar to the 1930s. With increased stability, says he, the U.S. can count on a "very substantial increase in the growth rate, affecting the rate of growth of the labor force, the rate of decline in hours of work, the rate of accumulation of capital, the speed with which new technology is incorporated in actual production processes and the composition of demand...
When the compact cars hit the showrooms last fall, Detroit's experts hoped that they might win 15% of the market. Last week the latest figures showed that the auto men had erred on the conservative side. To date, 687,821 compacts have rolled off the lines to capture 24.08% of the market; by the end of this week, the total will...