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...estimate these revenues it was necessary to guess at the state of business. His guesses (technically based on the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production) : business in fiscal 1934 to average approximately the same as business in 1931, business in fiscal 1935 to average just a shade better than business in 1930. His estimates of revenue did not include about $50,000,000 which may be added if the Federal liquor tax is raised to $2 a gallon (see p. 15), nor about $150,000,000 which may be raised by plugging holes in the income...
...Josephy, Jr. '36, Victor H. Kramer '35, Thomas H. Quinn '36, A. Kellogg Philbrick '35, will attend the National Conference on the Student in Politics which will take place in Washington from Friday, December 29 to Sunday, December 31. The Conference is sponsored by student groups of every shade of opinion, from the Y.M.C.A. to the National Student League. Many prominent political figures will address the Conference, which will probably end with the adoption of some sort of resolution...
Horse Trade. "If one wants to estimate the 'horse trade,' I should say M. Litvinoff has got perhaps a shade the worst of it," declared Muscovite Walter Duranty of the New York Times, "but. on the other hand, to vary the metaphor, Mr. Litvinoff is taking home a pretty fat turkey for Thanksgiving...
...resign from the Jockey Club; 2) excommunicated. U. S. audiences are likely to be less disturbed by Novelist Cocteau's nightmare metaphors but they may find them-accompanied by Cocteau's voice, in interpolations for emphasis or elucidation, and by George Auric's sombre score-a shade less unintelligible than they sound. Typical shots: A cow with a hide made of maps; blood flowing from the mouth of a small boy; a black man with small gauze wings; wire masks; stars, muzzles of guns, the Virgin Mary, a sofa-back through which emerges...
...office last month as Director of Aeronautics, not only the gold paint but several thicknesses of hide had been scraped from the battered body of the industry. Last year's production was 549 planes, representing about $2,300,000. The first nine months of this year were a shade better...