Word: bracketeers
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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...
...Would a million unmarried men with dependents, and 3,200,000 childless married men, all in the 21-35 age bracket, be called...
...might be confused with its bastard cousin, profiteering, neither business nor Government has cared (or dared) stand up for it. Last week the House Ways & Means Committee prepared to abandon the orphan for the duration, reported favorably on a 94% excess-profits tax. For corporations in the highest bracket that means that every extra dollar of cost will actually cost only...
...teacher for every two students." Not even all of the 234 are full tutors, however. Every teaching fellow glorified by this additional title does only a part-time job, for he is allowed to spend only three-fifths of his efforts in teaching. Yet most of the 164 lower bracket Faculty men who tutor are teaching fellows. Associate professors and professors comprise the rest of the vast minority...
...serious business of signing for military service had its lighter moments, however. At the upper end of the 20 to 44 age bracket was one gentleman who reported late at Memorial Hall, excusing himself on the grounds that he had already signed once in 1917 and had only come to the 1942 registration at the insistence of his wife...