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Last week Treasury Secretary George Humphrey said that the Administration will "vigorously oppose" a drive, led by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George, to raise exemptions from the present $600 to $800 this year and to $1,000 in 1955. House Republicans, seeking a more politically palatable way to...
House Speaker Joe Martin last fortnight hinted at what was in the works. He an nounced that he favored cutting to 10% most excise taxes now above that level, e.g., the 20% tax on theater admissions, furs, jewelry, purses, the 25% tax on long distance telephone calls, the 15% levy...
¶Most acne sufferers waste their time and money looking for magical skin nostrums. The University of Virginia's Dr. Clayton E. Wheeler, writing in the current G.P., the magazine of the American Academy of General Practice, offers simpier advice: use ordinary toilet soap. Only in severe cases of...
Died. Margaret Anna Bird Insull, 80, widow of Samuel Insull, onetime Midwest utilities czar; in Chicago. A noted Broadway beauty, she married Insull in 1899, and became a princess of Chicago society. She tried in vain to make a stage comeback at 42, ten years later sank $200,000 in...
Actually, the U.S. now has a partial system of sales taxes through the excise taxes (up to 40% on tobacco and liquor), the emergency "luxury"' taxes of 20% on cosmetics, jewelry, luggage, theater admissions and furs, the 15% levy on travel, telephone calls and sporting goods, and 10% on...