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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike Nevada's mines, which have paid a "bullion tax" on net proceeds since 1864, gambling has never been taxed (except for a license). But this spring legislators wrote a bill calling for a 10% income tax on gambling's gross profits. The proposal stirred up as much argument as a counterfeit bill at a faro table...
...Ever-good, William Cropper, Stanley W. Hayter). Typical Academy prizewinner was Alicia Sundt Motts's Bouquet d'Amour, a tangle of plausible roses, lilies, pansies, baby's breath and almost edible cupids. Another notable prizewinner: Grappling the Lost Anchor, by famed Illustrator Harrison ("Peter Rabbit") Cady. Net impression on most visitors: more of the same...
Probably its chief appeal to the public is an overworked but still excellent plot which first exposes the plan of one member of a connubial team for extinction of the other, and then proceeds to weave an intricate net of suspicion and terror surrounding the discovery by the victim of the evil plans afoot. This idea although interesting and teeming with suspense has already been used in "Suspicion," "Angel Street," and "Dark Waters," and becomes tedious in time...
...slowness and weakness of the first Nazi counterattacks at Remagen probably reflected a shortage of transport and fuel -and certainly they reflected the massive Allied air campaign against the German rail net which last week roared into its fourth week without a single day's interruption. Field Marshal von Rundstedt must have been thrown badly off balance. He had no doubt counted on plenty of time to regroup his forces, while Eisenhower prepared for the "naval operation" of crossing a bridgeless Rhine...
...each fall he locks himself in to write; each winter his revue runs for two or three months in Montreal and Quebec. The revues now fetch some 130,000 customers - in Montreal ten times the audience of any other show. They cost him a reputed $75,000 to produce, net him around $50,000 profit - and shut down the minute the house falls below 90% of capacity...