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...that nobody is going to get any pie. . . . To increase the real wage level is now, I think, completely out of the question. . . . The cost of living has increased about 10% in the last year.* To increase the wage level 10% over-all would just about absorb the amount of the new projected tax bill...
Democratic Dilemma. Neither does Author de Sales believe that democracy is doomed in its struggle with Communism and Naziism. "Democracy," he says, "is still in a position to absorb many doctrines, such as socialism, without necessarily destroying itself, because it still remains the only mode of life and the only mechanism of society sufficiently broad as far as its philosophical basis is concerned, and sufficiently vague as to its outlines, to encompass a vast number of contradictions." He feels that "democracy is the only form of Government . . . strong enough . . . to avoid the 'grim horrors of revolution...
...total national income in 1942 will be $103 billion (at February's price level). Of that $103 billion, they guess, the nation will have $55 billion to spend, with almost nothing to spend it on. Of this, taxes will sop up about $18 billion, savings and investments will absorb another $20 billion. The $17 billion that remains is the dangerous "wild money" which will roll around the china shop like a bull, crashing through prices, breaking up ceilings and walls, unless the Government finds a way to ring its nose. And to complicate matters a large part of this...
North of the border, relations between the Irish and the predominantly Midwestern U.S. troops were somewhat strained. Illogical to the Irish mind was the troops' complaining of the lack of supplies while they absorb all the surpluses in sight, especially beer. Stopped by a small-town constable for passing a red light, a U.S. trooper rudely exclaimed: "I've never seen traffic lights in a cemetery before." Another, asked his opinion of Irish girls, glumly replied: "At home, we bury our dead." The Irish have a tendency to resent such-remarks. When a U.S. technician...
Metallurgists estimated last week that actual and potential uses could absorb 100 to 120 million ounces of silver this year (U.S. production in 1941: 70 million ounces). Hardy & Harman, famed Manhattan silver refiners and dealers, used to have about 500 customers, mostly in jewelry and other crafts. Now they have 15,000 customers, mostly in industry. Where they used to send out salesmen, they now send engineers...