Word: speedier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana from any benefits. ¶ Senate and House passed a tax law that trims $42 million in excise revenue, principally by lowering the admission tax on theater, movie, baseball and football tickets. Passed also: a tax bill that grants to small businessmen $260 million in fringe-benefit reliefs, e.g., speedier depreciation on equipment. ¶ The House approved and sent to the White House a humane-slaughter bill (TIME, Aug. 11), which requires that cattle, sheep, hogs and horses, before being killed, must be rendered unconscious...
...demands of change and to roll with the movement. Nowhere last week was the common aptitude better stated than in Woburn, Mass., where Gas Station Owner Joe Hanson was moving his house an eighth of a mile and building a new gas station to accommodate a wider, smoother, brighter, speedier Route 93. Said Joe Hanson: "I'm sure I'll get a fair deal from the state. I won't be compensated for my inconvenience. But I'll end up with a better business. I'll live in a better community. Things will...
Bill of Complaint. Smarting under the criticism, 20 Latin American countries swiftly drew up a four-point petition counter-criticizing World Bank operations. They wanted 1) speedier loan consideration, 2) loan approval by their own governments rather than the bank, 3) loans in their own national currencies as well as foreign money, 4) granting of "general" loans, not just specific ones. A more telling complaint was added by Pakistan's M. A. Mozaffar: "The ratio of World Bank loans granted to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and the Middle East declined from...
After the election of Smith and Winter to the important positions of President and Vice-President, the meeting calmed down noticeably and the secret ballot was abandoned in favor of the speedier standing vote...
...Union's vastly stepped-up nuclear program (five bombs exploded since August 1956) was given by Pervukhin: an order to rush work on big electric-power projects-essential to atomic development-at Kuybyshev, Saratov and Stalingrad (on the Volga) and Kairak-Kum, Irkutsk and Novosibirsk (in Siberia). Something speedier and more pliable than the old Piatiletki was needed to harness these horses...