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...discovered the New Deal when the Civil Works Administration "kidnapped" some of the poorer and lazier Garth Negroes and put them on relief. Later he saw his way of life disappear forever when the Tennessee Valley Authority forced the Garths to sell out, made the plantation a lake behind one of the TVA's dams...
...only two 1,000-plane raids (on the Ruhr June 1, on Bremen June 25), the Bomber Command was far from idle. It carried through 16 raids on German objectives and 33 on occupied territory, some of them sweeps by 300 or more planes. July got off to a poorer start. Until the shipbuilding port of Wilhelmshaven was attacked last week, German soil had six raid-free days...
Legally, age alone (i.e., any age between 20 and 44) is not ground for deferment, regardless of the fact that older men may make poorer soldiers and have more responsibilities in civil life...
...although the new tax bill boosts income taxes to new heights to reach its $6 billion total, inflation cannot be prevented by making the "new poor" poorer. It can be prevented only by keeping the "new rich" from spending their new income...
...wartime U.S. the poor were growing richer, the rich poorer. War-factory payrolls had brought back World War I's silk-shirt days, except that most buyers now didn't want silk shirts. High taxes and living costs had put many a rich man on half rations. Badly off were white-collar workers with fixed salaries: schoolteachers, civil-service employes, office workers whom the boom had passed...