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...salaries as low as $14.50 a week) to the 17,197,000 people who must file returns in 1942. About 2,256,000 of these small wage earners will actually pay taxes. Of $303,000,000 in extra revenues provided by lower exemptions, these new taxpayers will contribute a scant $47,000,000. The other $256,000,000 will come from the pockets of the 10,925,000 people who now pay taxes-by lifting their incomes into a higher surtax bracket...
...light of all these contingencies, many a Lippmann reader thought last week that the pundit's suggestion made scant sense. Even his conclusion-an appeal to the President to prove that he was honest in his promise not to engage U.S. troops on foreign battlefields-could be charged to a wistful faith in a commitment made in disregard of the facts of present-day international life...
Part of Dr. Todt's success is undoubtedly due to his diplomatic way with his Führer. When in 1938 he wanted to build the great Elbe bridge, he did not try to go ahead under his own steam to requisition materials from Germany's scant stocks of steel and iron. Instead he got quick action by suggesting that Hitler himself help to design...
...withholding of goods . . . needed for defense of the nation . . . is to be deplored. . . . Scant attention, however, has been paid to the dairy farmers' repeated pleas for emergency relief. The drought has cut the hay crop in half, and the recent rains . . . have spoiled much [of what remains]. Labor has been drained from the farm to the manufacturing industries. ... Dairy feeds ... are constantly rising. . . ."In short, like many a manufacturer of consumers' goods, dairymen had found their costs rising until they felt they had to raise prices or go out of business...
Lessons & Lacks. Pitted against the commanding fire power of the Armored Division, the infantry outfits had shown determination, resourcefulness and coolness in fighting off the tanks. But their anti-tank equipment was scant and what they had lacked mobility. They needed what the Allied Army had lacked in France last spring, what Germany's Panzer outfits have never yet met: self-propelled artillery that can get in the way of tanks, knock them out. Fully aware of the need, the Army is already deep in the design of such a piece, probably to be mounted on the chassis...