Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...back-platform appearances across New Mexico the candidate began to learn to use the microphone. He talked of the New Deal's "drunken orgy of spending"; promised "honest jobs for honest work in honest industry"; and always, everywhere, blasted the Chicago "draft," declaring again & again "I am not an indispensable...
...bill was in trouble from the day it was written. To the Treasury, taxable excess profits meant any & all profits above a certain return (say, 4% to 8%) on invested capital. The House subcommittee which drafted the original bill softened this concept (which is hard on small corporations that use little capital in proportion to their earnings) and confused it. As an alternative, the subcommittee added what was in effect a war-profits tax-a tax on profits above the average of three or four pre-tax years, the increment being supposedly attributable to the defense boom. For the sake...
Headed by R. Llewelln Brill '42, a reformed toper of note, the Prohibitionists plan to use revival methods to secure converts from gutters and rathskellers and to gather them behind the local Party slogan, "No More Gin: No More...
They are the Nieman Fellows, who throughout the year will have complete freedom to make any use they wish of Harvard's educational facilities, and will get paid by the University for doing so. In the past two years 21 reporters, editorial writers, and editors have held Nieman Fellowships...
...Jewett Reflector is considered one of the three or four most important telescopes of the twenty-five in regular use at the Harvard Observatory, and in some ways, because of its unusual adaptability, the most important. It will greatly extend the survey of external galaxies in the northern hemisphere. Observatory officials believe that perhaps a million galaxies will be within its range...