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Flemington's tax rate, now 28? and by far the lowest in New Jersey, is still dropping. By the end of next year, Flemington and Hunterdon County will have paid off $11,000 in bonded debt with city slicker money, will be debt free. What will happen then, Flemingtonians do not know. But they can dream-of a super-velvety municipal golf course, a Hollywoodian town swimming pool, even a Utopian tax holiday...
Allied shipping tonnage losses during May dropped to the lowest figure for any one month since 1940. Even German communiqués reported a total of only 372,000 tons. German U-boat losses rose to the highest figure since the start of the war: nine sunk, four probably sunk, two possibly sunk - not including those destroyed at bases and assembly plants...
Another attitude concerns bankers. Circumstance, politics and the bankers themselves put the calling for a while on the bottom rung of the ladder of public esteem. If they are no longer on the very lowest rung, it is not because the politicians have offered them a helping hand. On the contrary, politicians have taken over many private banking functions, with results in some cases that still await a critical examination. Some bankers have presumably become wiser for their bitter experiences, but they lack the opportunity to prove their wisdom and to attract new, able personnel. The public can well afford...
...logical time was when the rivers were in flood, the dams full, the dry season approaching; 2) big four-engined planes were needed, flown by experienced crews who had had weeks of specialized training and study of the target (bombing the dams was pinpoint work from the lowest altitude); 3) for maximum effect, flood disaster had to be carefully timed in the Allies' general bombing program. Experts considered that the best moment was when really heavy bombing had already disorganized Ruhr industry to a substantial extent, and when rescue and construction services were already overstrained...
Some of the lowest-cost books in U.S. publishing history will roll off the presses next month for shipment directly to frontline soldiers and sailors. Armed Service Editions, sponsored by the Council on Books in Wartime, will be paperbound, two columns to a page, shaped to be carried in a coverall pocket, to be passed along or thrown away. Shipments of 1,500,000 are planned for June, 35,000,000 for the next year. Titles will include fiction and nonfiction, a few classics, nothing technical or heavy. Typical June selections: The Human Comedy; Tom Sawyer; The Forest...