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Taxes or not, many a corporation found lush diggings in the first quarter. Biggest industrial profit booster was the steel industry. Despite soaring taxes, first 28 steel reports showed combined profits of $82,638,000, double March 1940's $40,030,000. Exception was Bethlehem whose earnings dropped from $10,891,000 to $10,436,000 while tax allowances rose from $2,855,000 to $7,200,000. But U.S. Steel profits were up $19,446,000 to $36,560,000 (best since 1929) even though taxes were up $16,031,000 to $27,603,000 (highest ever). Since...
Lately, Ingrid has been leading the prognosticators' poll for the part of Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Her most enthusiastic booster is Author Ernest Hemingway himself, who autographed her copy of the novel with: "To Ingrid Bergman, who is the Maria of this book...
Growing rapidly, the list of names almost doubled in size, over the weekend, jumping up from just a little over 600 to its present size. Adding some 350 signatures the Union was the strongest single booster of the movement. Eliot, Dunster, and Leverett Houses each added more than 100 names apiece...
...businessman never loved dollars as metal or paper, in the grim, sensual way in which Frenchmen loved francs. The U. S. businessman, in the days before the Revolution, was George Babbitt, a booster-a booster because he was a believer. He believed in money because it represented something else: power, as some called it; freedom, as others called it. Power, freedom and money were an indivisible atom. Therefore, dollars mattered...
...Clubs. Purposes: 1) "To encourage the exercise of good citizenship by taking part in local political affairs." 2) "To promote a better understanding of current political questions. . . ."3) "To encourage competent men and women . . . to seek public office through the machinery of our two-party system." Said Original Willkie Booster Oren Root: "Our position is the same [as before the election] in that there are certain fundamental principles of government and of life in which we believe just as much today as we did two months...