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Among 150 specific recommendations in the Douglas report, the biggest and costliest is a revenue-sharing plan that would turn back to state and local governments 2% of federal revenues, some $6 billion a year. Says the report: "The federal tax system, with all its faults, is more progressive and equitable than the systems currently used by the state and local governments...
Already the longest war ever fought by the U.S., Viet Nam now ranks as its fifth costliest (after World War II, with 291,557 battle deaths; the Civil War, with 220,938; World War I, with 53,402; and Korea, with 33,629). With the killed-in-action rate running at roughly 200 per week, Viet Nam should move past Korea into fourth place some time this spring-unless the negotiators in Paris make dramatic progress. The war has been far more expensive for native combatants. South Viet Nam has suffered 73,118 military dead in the past eight years...
...half a ton of bacon, explaining that she has six boys and a Mexican exchange student all living in her house. "I really don't know how much bacon 1,000 Ibs. is," she admitted. "But I do know that we use six or seven pounds a week." Costliest item was a new house, valued at $64,900 and sold for $55,000 to Chester Volkman, a contractor, who mused: "Maybe my daughter will want...
...faces no such problems. Much building labor in San Antonio remains unorganized. And commercial construction costs, according to the American Appraisal Co.'s widely used index, rank as sixth lowest among U.S. cities-8% above those in cheapest Savannah, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., but 35% below those in costliest New York City...
...violent summer of 1967, Detroit became the scene of the bloodiest uprising in half a century and the costliest in terms of property damage in U.S. history. At week's end, there were 41 known dead, 347 injured, 3,800 arrested. Some 5,000 people were homeless (the vast majority Negro), while 1,300 buildings had been reduced to mounds of ashes and bricks and 2,700 businesses sacked. Damage estimates reached $500 million. The grim accounting surpassed that of the Watts riot in Los Angeles where 34 died two years ago and property losses ran to $40 million...