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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inevitable Cut. With a surplus in sight and elections in the offing, a tax cut will be all but inevitable in 1956. The arguments will be about who should get what kind of tax cut when. Last week the new A.F.L.-C.I.O. union called for a reduction in individual income taxes at lower levels, and an increase in taxes on corporations and their stockholders. On the other hand, the Committee for Economic Development said: "It is the committee's view that all income-tax rates should be reduced, but that a relatively greater percentage reduction in tax should...
...like women are so well protected from both sight and air that they might well pine away. In addition to extolling the veil, she cries, "The exposure of the bosom and back is not only repugnant, but disadvantageous to nine women...
...Australian cockatoo (katkatoö), who so nearly resembles the Australian politico on the hustings that cartoonists often represent the one by the other. Last month, facing up to their fifth general election in six years, Australians wearily resigned themselves to a prolonged burst of cockatoo talk, and the sight of sulphurous crests raised in simulated alarm and indignation over the state of the nation. What they got instead was a beak-and-claw fight that made the political feathers fly as they had not done for a decade...
Since the war, one of the greatest building booms in history has changed the face of Latin America, and no letup is in sight. To house a population that is growing at double the world rate, the countries south of the border have built thousands of large-scale apartment projects, office buildings, stadiums, university halls and government buildings. In the major cities, new, skyscrapered skylines rise amidst one-and two-century-old slum clusters and rows of two-story stores. To portray a decade of tumultuous growth, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is currently displaying a photographic exhibit (assembled...
...accidents caused by birds have been plaguing airmen for years. Recently, the Air Force ordered its Flight Safety Research Section to make a nationwide survey of the problem and see what could be done to solve it. By last week the results were in, but no solution was in sight. Between Jan. 1, 1950 and June 30, 1955, FSR reported, 401 U.S. aircraft were damaged in collisions with birds...