Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year excess profits base on which the tax is estimated. Thus, since the top bracket is 90%, even a slight upward revision of the average base would mean an enormous rebate. To make sure that no corporation was frozen out of at least a chance to claim such a recount, Congress made Section 722 a long, loosely-phrased document offering several broad formulas for arriving at a new tax base. Example: if, during one of the four tax-base years, a corporation's profits were below normal, it could compute a new average tax base for four normal years...
...Schorr's candidate, barely beat out two rivals, both last-named Herbert (TIME, March 13). One of the Herberts (Attorney General Thomas J.), was Senator Harold Burton's choice to derail the Schorr machine; he finished only 2,005 votes behind Stewart, and talked of a recount...
Those who have not heard Jimmy recount his morning adventures in a car pool have missed the funniest incident in the civilian war effort (Driver Durante, trying his best to keep proper control of the brake and '"exhilarator,'" is nudged so far over by "Share-the-ride-Schwartz" and other multiplying members of the pool that finally '"I'm standin' on da corner waitin' for a streetcar...
Thomas V. Keene of Winthrop House and Indianapolis, Indiana, has been elected Third Marshal of the Class of 1945, it was announced last night after a final recount of the ballots had been completed...
...leading roles in the film are played by Hitler, Mussolini, the Japanese Army, and a series of statesmen ranging from an apologizing Tokyo of 1931 to an aroused Roosevelt of December 8, 1941. The scenes, all newsreel shot, tell a vivid story. In logical, almost childish simplicity, they recount the tale of Axis aggression, beginning with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, ending with the American entrance into the war. At the same time, Allied weakness is traced through the stages of appeasement diplomacy down to the critical period of woeful unpreparedness...