Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Equally significant was the Republican minority's strategy. Nine of the ten G. 0. P. Ways & Means committeemen abstained from voting-but not because they opposed new taxes. The Republicans thought the House should go much further in overhauling and broadening the tax structure. Democrat Doughton agreed in principle, promised to attempt a major overhaul (including additional taxes on excess Defense profits) at the next session of Congress...
...pretty certain that there will be some action," said Leon Henderson, after the board conferred last week with Franklin Roosevelt. Preliminary action there was, and of a kind to please U. S. businessmen. From Mr. Stettinius, the President ordered a thorough overhaul of the complex, tape-bound Federal procurement setup. Franklin ("I'm the boss") Roosevelt eased Secretary of the Treasury Morgen: thau out of Mr. Knudsen's way, giving him a free hand to tackle his enormous task of upping aircraft and aircraft-engine production to the still astronomical figure of 50,000 a year. Also promised...
...month before the campaign ends. All it needs is victories in the two double headers scheduled for it this week--with Princeton at Tigertown today and with Yale at Ithaca on Saturday. Triumphs in all four of these games will mean that only Dartmouth will have a chance to overhaul the Ithacans...
...entrenened in first place than ever, Cornell today is the only undefeated team in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League tournament. While its closest competitor, Yale, was meeting its first setback at Columbia, the Big Red last week again gave strong evidence that it will be a tough team to overhaul by walloping first Columbia and then Harvard, thus making its record five up and seven to go. Last Saturday's game with Dartmouth, scheduled for Hanover, was postponed by wet grounds and no date has been set for a replay...
France, coming gradually to life, is stepping up the performance of its Amiot 370, its Bloch 131, its Liore-&-Olivier Le O-45, by new design. Given time the Allies may yet overhaul Germany, may even out foot her if the hard-pressed Nazis run out of their hoard of raw materials: copper, aluminum, etc. But last week, with spring flying weather opening up, the gloomy looked at Joe Kennedy's odds and wondered...