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These last are the levies which bear most heavily on the poor, who pay no income tax. These taxes will fall on virtually everything the U.S. citizen enjoys, starting Oct. 1. Excise taxes (which are in effect sales taxes) range from a $1-a-gallon increase on whiskey to a flat 10% on cameras, musical instruments, washing machines, jewelry, cosmetics, rubber goods. Nuisance taxes include such penny-snatching tribute as: 10% on theater tickets costing 10? or more; 5% on nightclub bills; 6% on telephone bills for local calls; 10% on telegrams and long-distance calls costing 25? or more...
Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill. Big Russia was bleeding from wounds made by Nazi fangs, but there was enough fight in the old bear to frighten Japan and Bulgaria. Benito Mussolini, who has got used to being called a jackal, must have grinned at their behavior...
...first super markets were independent units. Now some of the early operators have formed their own chains (Big Bear, King Kullen, etc.) and the old established chains are in the business too. A. & P. now has 1,540 super markets, Safeway 498. Taxes levied on chains according to the number of units in 19 States have encouraged this trend...
Although their coverage is spotty over the U.S., super markets do 52% of all food business in Houston, 50% in Syracuse, N.Y., 41% in Los Angeles. Some of their sales figures are enough to make an oldtime corner grocer weep. In a single two-day sale, two Big Bear stores in Columbus, Ohio attracted 50,000 customers, sold about 175 carloads of food...
...grounds that a pledge is not a legal debt. They do not wish to put any charge on the term bill which cannot be collected by legally forceful means, if necessary. That such pledges are put on the term bills at Yale is an argument which would probably not bear a great deal of weight with the Corporation, but we have not yet tried it. This argument, reenforced by other suitable ones, and reiterated at judicial intervals, might eventually succeed in accomplishing the desired end. Certainly, if it were possible to place these pledges on the term bill the Council...