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The Conestogas have flown football teams, furniture, baby chicks, penicillin, fruit, vegetables, furs and race horses (see cut}. Last month, when the cruiser Astoria docked after 15 months in the Pacific, 120 of her crew chartered five Conestogas, whisked home in great style.
Also due to be dropped (July 1, 1946), if Congress adopts the Committee's plan, are the $5 "use" tax on automobiles and the wartime increases in excise taxes on admissions, transportation, furs, jewelry, alcoholic beverages, telephone bills and light bulbs. Due to be frozen at present levels (1...
It would repeal the 3% "normal" income tax, thus eliminate some 12,000,000 low-income Americans from the collectors' lists and lower the collectors' take from many more millions of middle-income earners. It would also repeal the 85.5% excess-profits tax on corporations and would end...
Stocky Pietro Mascagni tried 14 times to repeat his success. (Shrewish Signora Mascagni, a peasant girl wrapped in furs on the profits of Cavalleria, jealously selected the casts of all 15). But the audiences that cheered and wept over Cavalleria booed and hissed its pedantic successors.
Felt the quick stir of wonder; sat alone; Touched furs and flowers and cheeks. All this is ended.