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...bill authorizing the Government to pay the equivalent of local taxes on its low-cost housing projects, fix rents lower than previously required...
...imposed a 15% tax on coal production but granted a rebate of all but one-tenth of the tax to producers who abided by the coal code; 2) directed that the code should stipulate minimum wages and hours of labor in the mines; 3) empowered the code to fix minimum and, in some cases, maximum prices for coal...
...earth can't stand it no more. You got to change crops sometime." As in Miracle at Verdun, this ghastly irregularity spreads panic and consternation through the high command, has repercussions far outside the war zone on Press, Church and Business. However, unlike Playwright Chlumberg, who tried to fix original responsibility for the conflict, Playwright Shaw never penetrates as high as the nation's statesmen, as deep as the nation's populace. He is willing to concentrate his indignation on the Generals who run the war in such a way that men get killed. What young...
...they had was helpful, but "his wife always went out and lay down in the grass after she washed the dishes or did any work, because she said she was delicate. She wasn't a pioneer." Ranch biology they found engrossing. "A steer is a bull they fix so he can't give any germs to the cows to make calves." Neither Republicans nor Democrats could object to their comment on Roosevelt II: "President Roosevelt must be a very rich man because he gives all his money to the people. But we think he ought not to give...
Still hanging fire last week was the proposal, accepted in principle by both Japan and Russia, to appoint a commission to fix the contiguous boundaries of those two countries and thereby end all excuse for frontier skirmishing...