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...taxpayer! Who else? As his numbers decrease, his load increases. With so many of our people living off him -local, state and federal governments, their employees, service personnel, defense project employees, armed services, and useless navy yard personnel-who could object...
Similarly, it used to take six days to transfer a load of passenger cars off Matson's Hawaiian Motorist; the ship can now dock, unload and be back at sea in seven hours. Where 14-man gangs worked twelve shifts to load cargo containers into a Matson ship, a ten-man gang can now perform the complete loading job in just two shifts...
...wanted to do was to survive. I feel wonderful." Feeling that way, Davis went home for Christmas with his four children, ages 13 to 19. "I'll just sit back and wait for the mailman," he said. With a Government pension he will no longer have to load bananas...
...About 60% of the cut would go to families earning less than $10,000, who usually spend right to the hilt of their income. Corporations would get back $1.43 billion next year in the first of a two-stage cut that by 1966 would bring industry's tax load down from 52% of gross profits to 48%. Over the next two years, Heller counts on these stimulants to bring about a $25 billion rise in consumer outlays and a $5 billion increase in corporate spending...
...often bizarre. In 1957 the nation's highest tribunal solemnly considered the claim of Railroad Engineer Boyd R. Ringhiser, who had been treating himself for constipation and then, unable to make it fast enough across a busy freight yard, relieved himself in a gondola car-where a load of steel plates suddenly shifted, crushing his leg. That same year, the Court took up the case of a ship's baker who had grabbed a sharp knife instead of a scoop to serve hard ice cream and lost two fingers when the knife slipped. In both cases, the Supreme...