Word: higher
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Agriculture is the one sector of the U. S. economy that depends heavily on exports. Farm crops were also the chief U. S. export which, in 1940, the rest of the world could not buy. Many farm surpluses in 1940 were higher than ever; for farm prices, "parity" remained just a slogan. Yet farm income for the year was estimated at $9 billions, highest since 1937. Thanks were due less to the production boom than to Government...
...actually, everybody was out of step but Mr. Taft. His basic point was perfectly true: that the only promising source of further tax revenue is a higher tax rate on lower-income groups. As for increased tax rates on business, said he: "We would only be fooling ourselves. Taxes on business are passed on to the people, but tend to discourage business activity...
Least arty of all arts is the Hollywood cinema. But many a famed movie star, toiling under the burden of Hollywood's glamor and high salaries, has cursed a secret craving for the higher things. How great this craving has grown was made evident last fortnight when Los Angeles Art Dealer Robert Gump put on an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photographs and ceramics by celebrities of Southern California's social and cinema world-"important contributions to the Fine Arts by 30 outstanding personalities whose significance in their avocations is little known." Most presentable piece was a craftsmanlike etching...
...most subtle and terrible persecutions in all history." But the blood of martyrs is the seed of faith. Though the Nazis have jailed over 10,000 pastors, priests and monks for long or short periods, an unknown number have been beaten to death, the churches stand far higher in German esteem today than they did in the easygoing '20s. Church congregations have grown remarkably. Sales of the Bible have shot up from 830,000 copies in 1933 to 1,225,000 in 1939, topping Mein Kampf by about...
...almost every phase of Mexican life: industry, agriculture, railroads, mining, natural gas, hydraulic power, tourist business, amusements, canning, fishing, manufacture of paper matches. In return for this Good Neighborliness, they would not go begging. Taxes in Mexico are generally lower than in the U. S., return on investment generally higher...