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...increased flow of money tends to be inflationary. But the next chapter should be headed "deflation," for when the veteran and other people with fixed incomes have been squeezed dry, the market will fall out under the inflated inventories and the boom will end in bust. Let the wage earner sacrifice, you may say, let the veteran suffer, but in the long run no economy can continue to distribute inflated profits to one small class and inflated costs, a huge consumer tax, to the great mass of men and still be prosperous...
...demand in behalf of the veteran and wage-earner cannot be answered with "T.S.!" Show us an alternative--besides continence, selfabnegation, and supine resignation--and we will be glad to recommend different action...
...same process has been applied to the wage earner as well. . . . The whole effect of the growth in strength of the trade union movement-indeed, one can say its deliberate intention-has been to divorce the worker's income from any dependence on the efforts he makes...
...Plain Citizens. The wage earner also needed encouragement. Said the Finance Minister: "Our present high personal income tax [is] discouraging work and initiative in all groups at a time when we need a rapid expansion of employment and a willing mobility of labor. . . . I recognize that . . . wartime taxation has begun to blunt incentives." Therefore, personal income taxes would be cut 16%, retroactive...
Soap opera's biggest single earner (as high as $250,000 a year) is a 43-year-old ex-Ohio schoolmarm named Irna Phillips. Weekday mornings the 45 characters of her three current shows (The Guiding Light, Today's Children, The Woman in White) troop past an NBC microphone in 45 minutes of virtually nonstop emotionalism. Last week, on the anniversary of her 15th year in radio, Writer Phillips was wrestling with a newly publicized approach to her craft. She called it "social significance...