Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interesting to note is the fact that more than 50 per cent of the cases dealing with war problems became obsolete within several months after release. The timeliness of these war industry cases, conversion problems, and consequences of WPB and OPA edicts keeps the students very much aware of current conditions...
...anti inflation measure. The Treasury proposed two plans to do the job as far as taxation could: the famous spendings tax and forced savings. Congress ignored both and filled the gap with one of the most unfair taxes in recent history, Senator Barkeley's "victory tax" of five per cent on all income...
...sales tax, and inferior to the Treasury plan. It should have been defeated for at least five reasons: (1) It will help but slightly to check inflation because the lowest income groups spend most of their wages on necessities such as food, and for larger incomes a five per cent levy is not heavy enough, (2) It burdens the poorest families most, taxing as low as the subsistence wage of $12 a week, $600 a year. In this income area there is scarcely enough to keep a family alive. A third meal a day should not be taxed away...
...Casey has voted 100 per cent for the long over-due domestic policies of the New Deal. He has had the vision to see the necessity for them. And while Senator Lodge has voted against most of the President's foreign policy, Mr. Casey has supported it. He voted for the fortification of Guam, aircraft appropriations, neutrality revision, lend-lease, draft extension and renewal of the trade pacts. Though he naturally has made many mistakes he has resolutely proven to be a fighter for progressive democracy at home and abroad. He deserves to be elected to the Senate...
...countries which have had large areas conquered by the enemy, such as Russia and China the dislocation of educational facilities has been immense. In China 75 per cent of students are on relief, and in Russia 640,000 students have been dispossessed from almost two thousand universities, now in Nazi hands...