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...highway planners, the Delaware Memorial Bridge stood for something more exciting than statistics: it is one more completed, solid link in a plan to unsnarl the major postwar highway problems of the northeastern U.S. By November, if all goes well, the new $250 million New Jersey Turnpike will siphon the outpouring of trucks and cars from New York, run them across the Jersey meadows and farmlands at 60 to 70 m.p.h., and spill them out on the new Delaware bridge in half the time of today's routes. From there, in mid 1952, southbound motorists should be able...
...next year with a "pilot operation" of 10,000 boys, it could not do much more even if it showed it wanted to. The hard military fact is that there is simply not enough manpower to maintain a standing army of 3,500,000 and at the same time siphon off the best crop of recruits-the 18-year-olds-into U.M.T. Each year 800,000 draftees, their 24 months of service ended, will be released from the Army. Unless Congress raises the draft age or increases the draftee's length of service, replacements must come from the million...
...expert, Colin Stam, a career man respected alike by Democrats and Republicans. Since Stam testified at a closed session-and kept his mouth shut afterward-there was no detailed report on what he had said. Republicans said he had testified that any excess-profits tax which siphoned off more than $2 billion-exactly half of what President Truman demanded-would be dangerous to business. Democrats denied this; they said Stam had merely pointed out that no excess-profits tax could siphon off $4 billion without taxing some "normal" earnings as well...
This week every U.S. wage-earner took a cut in pay. Withholding rates went up from 15% to 18% under the new tax law, which will siphon off an added $2.7 billion from personal incomes in the next year. Corporations also will feel the pinch. They will kick in an additional $1.5 billion to the Treasury under a tax increase that is retroactive to July...
...budget dramas, documentaries like The Empire Builders, and situation comedies like Amos 'n' Andy, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Vic and Sade. By 1937, almost 400 network shows a month were originating in Chicago for NBC alone. Then New York money and Hollywood climate and opportunities began to siphon off Chicago's talented radiomen, and most of the remaining shows degenerated into a mishmash of successful but seedy soap operas...