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...Dwyer rose, so did Moran. When O'Dwyer became mayor, he made Moran first deputy fire commissioner and let it be known that all things political were to be "cleared with Jim Moran." As a last act, the departing mayor had appointed him to his lifetime $15,000-a-year job as a city water commissioner...
Under Lord Iveagh the company began its first advertising in 1928 in England. It quickly became Britain's biggest advertiser. Business boomed, and it built a London brewery. In 1948 Guinness also opened a small American brewery (100,000 bbls.-a-year capacity) in Long Island City. It found New York's tap water as suitable as that from Dublin springs...
...Government bonds (TIME, March 19). With those points won, Tom McCabe decided that now was a good time to get back to running his Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa. He resigned. President Truman last week named apple-cheeked Bill Martin (subject to Senate confirmation) to the $16,000-a-year...
...national sales tax. The fact that it spreads the tax load is one of its weaknesses. Instead of taxing on the basis of ability to pay-the traditional test of a good tax-a sales tax hits those hardest who can least afford to pay. Example: a $3,000-a-year family spends the major part of its income (mostly on necessities), thus the tax hits most of its income. A high-income family, on the other hand, spends a much smaller proportion of its income on living expenses, thus would pay a sales tax on a far smaller proportion...
...fascinated by the work of the famous Alfred Binet (intelligence tests). It was as a tester and child psychologist, at the University of Iowa, that Stoddard made his first reputation. In 1942 he switched again, to administration. Before Illinois summoned him to the $20,000-a-year president's job, he was a dean at Iowa and, for four wartime years, New York State's commissioner of education...