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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Road to Noalchali. Across the northern frontier, in the Tajik Socialist Soviet Republic, loomed Mt. Stalin (24,590 ft.) and Mt. Lenin (23,386 ft.), mightiest peaks of the U.S.S.R. Gandhi's thoughts last week turned to the lowest part of India, the mushy flats of Noakhali at the mouth of the Ganges. That part of Bengal, where Moslems and Hindus are mixed, will become part of Pakistan...
...bill's tax-reduction formula-10.5% for the highest brackets, 20% for the middle, 30% for the lowest brackets -"fails to give relief where it ia needed most"-in the lowest brackets...
...gross understatement. In both Massachusetts and Connecticut it is illegal for doctors to give contraceptive advice to married women, and the Roman Catholic citizens are told that "Birth Control is against God's Law." Yet the birth rates in these two states are among the lowest in the country, and before the war were lower than those of France-about one-third of the physiological maximum. Obviously the majority of the people in both states practice birth control regardless of legal restrictions and religious taboos...
Bearer's Scheme. Abbott's tax schedules are cunningly contrived to meet this border competition. But only in the lowest brackets are they below current U.S. rates (see box). Farther up the scale, they still take more from the pocket than does the U.S. Treasury...
...more of the burden of social welfare, church expenditures in this field have been going down. Despite a rise in consumer income of $10 billion between 1929 and 1941, contributions to churches and social welfare institutions dropped from $1.5 billion to $1.2 billion. And to churches "families at the lowest income levels contributed more generously than those at the highest...