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Hottest program news of all: after many a song & dance about it, Bing Crosby had decided to sign with Philco. Last week he sent them his terms, probably the steepest in radio history: 1) $35,000 for a weekly half-hour program; 2) the right to transcribe some shows. The reason: he might want to be somewhere else at broadcast time,* could record the program in advance...
...vanished England, move up to bed, to death. The younger couple, a sorrowful, sadly mismated Adam and Eve, are left alone to their marriage and to silence, sailing like disconsolate swans on the exhausted calm of a summer evening, and on the edge of one of the steepest chasms in history...
...individual incomes proposed by the Treasury, the Committee asked for $1,360,300,000. But they more than made up the difference by jumping the Treasury's proposed $933,500,000 increase in corporation taxes to a whopping $1,255,200,000. It was, in short, the steepest tax bill in U. S. history-steeper by $164,900,000 than the amount Mr. Morgenthau had suggested-and a brave enough act for notoriously tax-shy Congressmen...
...blocks east, atop one of the city's steepest, best sledding hills, Dean Mason Solt, 39, street-department worker, drove his twelve-ton street-roller around the curve, headed down toward the busy intersection. As usual, he shoved the gearshift into reverse. But the gears failed to mesh. He set the brakes, but already the twelve tons of steel were rolling, gathering speed down the steep grade toward the jam of cars, busses, children...
...road in the U. S., the Pennsylvania Turnpike has no curves to speak of; its almost imperceptible jogs could be taken without hazard at 90 m.p.h. For 70% of its way it is straight as a die; one 13-mile stretch marches as unwaveringly as a Roman road. Its steepest grade...