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Other areas the President thought worth scouting for more revenue: a few tax-exempt educational and charitable organizations which persist in "glaring abuses" of the exemptions, life insurance companies which "have unintentionally been relieved of income taxes since 1946," and short-lived Hollywood corporations de signed to dodge paying big taxes. He wanted to trim corporation income taxes in the bracket between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, proposed a "moderate" tax increase on any profits that jutted beyond the $50,000 level...
Except for the Communists in Foley Square, most of the U.S. seemed inclined to agree. As long as the U.S. felt the need to keep G-man Hoover checking up on its fellow citizens, the uneasy feeling was bound to persist. But without the assurance of the FBI's eternal vigilance, the U.S. might feel uneasier still...
...photographs show that the sun, though completely gaseous, has mountains-vast mounds of luminous gas as much as 100 miles high. The mounds seem to have some connection with sun spots (solar hurricanes), but they often appear before the spots break through the sun's surface and they persist long after the spots have disappeared. Around the peaks and valleys of these gaseous mountains blow winds whose speed may be greater than 300,000 m.p.h...
...faculty profit by the student's suggestions to improve teaching methods. Not only has the Chemistry Department offered prizes for better instructing but has also set up a program of lectures for their teaching fellows and a routine of frequent inspections to supervise their work. Section men who persist in a casual attitude toward students will have their fellowships discontinued for the following year...
...Life of Riley (Universal-International) may be an ominous preview of the day when more & more radio soap operas will be seen on television. For four years, a sharp-eyed young man named Irving Brecher has produced Riley, a radio show about one of those homey American families that persist in radio scripters' minds. Now he has put the program's star (William Bendix) and a cast of actors into an untidy little movie made up of short episodes and an endless crescendo of gags...