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There is nothing revolutionary in such proposals. Canada already uses the declining balance system. Britain now grants first-year write-offs as high as 20%. Sweden has a similar system. Whatever tax revenues the U.S. might lose would be an ultimate gain for the taxpayers, by increasing the productivity of the whole economy and thus lowering prices. By spurring the demand for heavy equipment-the backbone of the economy-there would also be another bar to a depression. Above all, by making expansion and modernization a continuous rather than an emergency process, the U.S. would keep its industries always prepared...
Four novelists with solid reputations hold most of the ground they have already gained but gain little new in their latest books. Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat gets as far away from ships and war as he can in The Story of Esther Costello (Knopf). It is a skillfully written attack on the ruthless ballyhoo which makes an innocent handicapped girl the center of a charity racket. Another novelist who finds it hard to do anything seriously wrong is Wright Morris. In The Deep Sleep (Scribner), he dissects the private lives of a Philadelphia Main Line family, and shows that...
With the rest of the languages, Townsend's linguists did not always have the luck to find a Spanish-speaking interpreter. But their approach was always the same: gain the confidence of the Indians by living with them and sharing their food (including such exotic dishes as monkey stew and roast tapir). Once a team had learned a language, it set about publishing a simple reading primer...
Census Bureau projections had indicated a population gain, from 1940 to 1950, of only 8,000,000. The actual gain was 19.5 million, to 151,700,000. In less than three years since then, the U.S. has already topped 160 million. In the last year or two, the number of births had been expected to fall because the Depression generations of the '303, far smaller than those of the booming '205, were coming of marriageable age. However, the fewer couples of marriageable age have been counterbalanced by the fact that high incomes and steady employment are leading couples...
While all this was going on, Southern Democrats began throwing you alls into Mr. Mitchell's chowder. Florida's Senator Spessard Holland said he had declined an invitation to attend the dinner because he thinks the South will gain nothing there. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd said he had not been invited. South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes said he would not go if he were invited...