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...sales taxes (which run from 16% to 67% in England on all but the barest necessities) and lower-bracket income taxes (which hit 50% in England at the $660-a-year income level) the U.S. citizen has not even begun to fight. But the U.S. corporation, long the biggest taxpayer on earth, will have extra good tax reason next year to feel that war is hell...
Sales of the $1,000,000,000-a-year soft drink business are not far from last year's all-time record, despite sugar rationing and the bottlecap shortage. Atop huge military shipments (all made from unrationed sugar), civilian sales are as big as the 80% sugar ration allows. To stretch sugar supplies, bottlers are using less cane sugar per drink, more dextrose and sorghum...
...meantime it has cleaned off some $140,000,000 on its debt, mostly out of its $18,000,000-a-year depreciation reserve. It has promised to consider dividend resumption before...
...disgruntled Guthrie, the report said, had been dead right. There had been damaging delay. Generally at fault were the $1-a-year men, whose integrity was not questioned, but who had been, the report said in fancy language, "unable to divorce themselves from their subconscious gravitation to their own industries." Specifically at fault was Philip D. Reed, "with [whose] ability or accomplishments" the Committee was decidedly not impressed...
Nelson would not abolish the $1-a-year system, but last week he was ready to joggle some elbows around WPB. That, reportedly, was one reason why he asked Truman to hold up his blast...