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...experts, the theorists, the ax grinders finished their pleading before the Senate Finance Committee. The shouting died away. Behind closed doors, the committee began drafting their idea of the 1942 tax bill to raise $3,500,000,000. Indications were they would adopt almost none of the new proposals, would stick close to the bill the House had already voted...
...with a resin binder, is made of soybeans, wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie-formerly used to wrap Egyptian mummies). Last fall Boyer turned out a few panels, had his lanky boss whang at them harmlessly with an ax, was overjoyed when Ford gave him the go-ahead for a complete...
...pointed out that, of 500 permanently commissioned colonels (56 to 64 years old), only 30 now have troop commands. Of the rest, some are doing well enough in staff and office jobs (where, said General Marshall, "we need their brains more than their legs"). Others are simply awaiting the ax...
...biggest Goya show ever seen in the U. S. Chicagoans laid aside their war-headlined newspapers and went to look at pictures, in the ponderous, heavy-walled Chicago Art Institute. The exhibition last week was a record of war and revolution. Its pictures showed hangings, ax-murders, mutilations, bloody massacres of innocent civilians, trains of plodding, bewildered refugees, the indecisive faces of weak, shambling statesmen, vacillating, incompetent rulers. They showed chaos, panic, famine. The savage, flaming scenes, more than a century old, had a familiar, contemporary look, for the world as it looked to Spain's great painter...
...critical standards of radio are as simple as a stone ax. The program that attracts the biggest audience is the best program. The highest accolade that radio can offer is conferred on aerial shows by a statistical organization, Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (Crossley). Last week C. A. B.'s Manager Alcuin Williams Lehman, in the pages of the trade journal Broadcasting-Broadcast Advertising, conferred radio's patents of nobility...