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Compromise. The current Revenue Act imposes: 1) surtaxes up to 27% on undistributed profits; 2) taxes up to 79% on all capital gains made from the sale of assets held for less than one year, on 30% of capital gains made from the sale of assets held for ten years. The Revenue Bill passed by the House last March imposed: 1) 16% levies on all corporation profits, a 4% surtax on profits undistributed in dividends; 2) levies on capital gains by taxing all of such gains only when made by the sale of assets held less than 13 months...
...project of Franklin Roosevelt. In the midst of his campaign, he scuttled up to Washington to vote against the Reorganization Plan, claimed personal responsibility for defeating it on the grounds that his reports of local feeling caused four other Representatives to change their votes. In Florida's current political cockfight, Cracker Boy Wilcox's chief distinctions so far have been the facts that: 1) he has only one sound truck to two for each of his opponents; 2) his expenses are thus far listed at $3,000 to $6,000 for Sholtz, $7,000 for Pepper...
Trojan Incident (produced by the Federal Theatre). With three current hits in Manhattan (Haiti, Prologue to Glory, . . . one-third of a nation . . .), the Federal Theatre last week recklessly plunged more than 3,000 years into the past in quest of a fourth. Drawing chiefly on the Trojan Women of Euripides, Trojan Incident relates the aftermath of the most famed of all wars, shows the Greeks leading the women of Troy into slavery and concubinage...
...find out how much basis there is for "the current impression that the present generation of youth has no inhibitions in relation to word use as well as otherwise," Professor Edwin R. Hunter (head of the English department) and Student Bernice E. Gaines examined the freshman class, seniors and the faculty in Maryville College, a small co-educational institution in east Tennessee. They chose 62 words that once were or still are widely considered offensive, asked the students and teachers to indicate whether they used the words: 1) as freely as cat or dog, 2) with a feeling of being...
...about a third the cost of the old-type fence and the operating expense is negligible-usually not more than 18? a month. The better fences give short intermittent shocks, so that animals will not "freeze" to the wire, as they might if the current were strong & steady. Once shocked, most animals will stay away from the wire...