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This debt retirement may have barely started. It may burgeon if the tax relief proposed in the 1942 Revenue Act becomes law (TIME, Sept. 7). All railroads can then purchase their own bonds at discounts without paying taxes on the paper profits. (This privilege now belongs only to those in financial difficulties.) If the still-solvent roads use most of their available funds for bond retirement they might retire $1 billion of their $7 billion debt next year. The not-so-solvent railroads are scaling down their debts in court...
...family of thoughtful New Englanders share their love of this place with a Czech immigrant and a handful of local citizens. The plot is no more than their comings & goings, births & deaths, over 60 years. Behind this is Nature's overpowering background of sea, fog, wind; the pages burgeon with blueberries, cranberries, marsh grass, salt spray and ospreys...
...Ralph Norton who decided that what West Palm Beach needed was an art museum. He first visited the town in 1898, when it sported only two resort hotels. Whenever his job permitted, he came again, watched the town burgeon. In 1935 he bought a home there. When at last he and his wife decided that their picture collection had outgrown their Chicago house, he knew exactly what to do about it. Late last winter his smart, low, $250,000 museum stood completed in West Palm Beach-bounded on one end by the Dixie Highway, on the other by the road...
...summarizing the season, Captain Ives expressed his disappointment that the team's potential material did not burgeon into a spectacular outfit...
...Secretary of War married, every newspaper in the land would burgeon with accounts and pictures of his bride, her life, romance, wardrobe, nuptials. Last week Germany's Minister of War, grim-lipped Nazi Werner von Blom-berg-59, a widower for five years and father of five children-took a second wife, but for 24 hours the regimented German press was not able to learn even the bride's name. Finally the honeymooners were found, strolling through the zoo in Leipzig, the bride's name revealed: Erika Gruhn, 28-year-old daughter of a Hanover carpenter...