Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other areas the President thought worth scouting for more revenue: a few tax-exempt educational and charitable organizations which persist in "glaring abuses" of the exemptions, life insurance companies which "have unintentionally been relieved of income taxes since 1946," and short-lived Hollywood corporations de signed to dodge paying big taxes. He wanted to trim corporation income taxes in the bracket between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, proposed a "moderate" tax increase on any profits that jutted beyond the $50,000 level...
...right, fellows," said a hoarse voice. "Stick 'em up and don't move." The men looked up to see the business ends of six short-nosed revolvers. Behind the guns were six men in grotesque rubber Halloween masks, chauffeurs' caps and Navy peacoats. "Oh, my God!" groaned Cashier Thomas B. Lloyd. At the gang leader's command, Lloyd ordered a clerk to open a mesh door into the vault room...
...from perfection itself, has many political allies who are incompetent, reactionary, corrupt. But the U.S. has one transcendent political and moral responsibility: to prevent war by stopping the extension of Soviet power short of the point where it could make a victorious war. To discharge that duty, the U.S. needs allies-as clean as possible. But it needs allies-clean or dirty, just as Britain and the U.S. needed reactionary and tyrannical Russia against Hitler. U.S. opinion tends to whitewash some allies (as it whitewashed Russia in 1941-45) and to scold ineffectually at others (e.g., China). Either by wishful...
Over three tons of every type of clothing were collected last year, although the book drive fell short of its goal...
...case you've never met W. Henry Johnston, publicity director for the HAA, he's a short, balding individual who has always gone out of his way to help an interested reporter...