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Unlike the tax credit, a speedup in depreciation write-offs does not require congressional approval. By early summer, Treasury tax men expect to finish the monumental job of revising their rulings on the useful life of each of the myriad varieties of machinery used by U.S. industry. The shorter useful-life rulings will allow businessmen to deduct the purchase price of machinery from their income tax in larger chunks-and hence leave them with more after-tax cash to buy still more machinery. Though other industries are unlikely to get the whopping 40% depreciation speedup already accorded the hard-pressed...
...sharp Cornell lightweight crew snatched a three-foot victory from the Crimson varsity in the last five strokes of an exciting but disappointing finish Saturday at Ithaca. Penn came in third in the contest. The winning time was 6:56 minutes...
Both boats were even for the last five strokes, and, in a sense, the race was a tie. But the Cornell crew happened to be at the end of a stroke crossing the finish line and jutted out three feet ahead. Had the Crimson been in the middle of a stroke the outcome might have been different...
Confusion in the Harvard boat as to the whereabouts of the finish line hurt its sprint effort considerably. Coxswain John Kearney called for the final 20 power strokes when there were still 50 strokes remaining. As a result, he had to call for 20 more, but the Crimson strength had practically been spent by that time...
...Crimson has won six of seven games but coach Norm Shepard insists "We'll have to scramble to finish over ." The Eastern League, which includes the Ivies and the service academic is stocked with powerful teams this year. But it would be hasty to discount the Crimson too early...