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With their country still nominally neutral, their war effort still far from hitting its full, expensive stride, U.S. citizens last week got a close-up view of what war taxation meant in dollars & cents, a possible preview of U.S. taxation in the uncertain years to come. In Ottawa, Canadian Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley stood up in Parliament to introduce the Dominion's biggest budget ever ($1,760,000,000), to suggest the biggest tax bill ($1,450,000,000) Canadians have ever paid...
...usually manage to "take things in my stride," but your cover picture of Hitler this week moves me to speak. TIME is very definitely my favorite magazine. However, with so many fine, decent and worth-while individuals to choose from, couldn't you find a more worthy subject...
Also asked of FORTUNE'S Forum was an opinion on rearmament progress. Results: 50.2% believed the program was or soon would be in satisfactory stride; 34.7% thought it was "spotty" or seriously behind schedule. Critics listed these chief causes of delay: attempts by labor unions to exploit defense needs (named as a primary or secondary cause by 66.3%); Government methods of placing defense orders, notably red tape and labor restrictions (64.2%); long-standing lack of mutual confidence between Government and business (62.9%); shortages of production equipment like machine tools (56.3%); lack of reasonably adequate military planning...
...Varsity golfers took their first intercollegiate match in stride yesterday at Belmont, crushing a weakened Rhode Island State squad 8 1/2 to 1/2. Gill of the visitors gained a split with Captain Watty Dickerman of Harvard for the Rams' lone score...
...dynamic speaker, which launched the Majestic radio. Grigsby stock boomed, but bumptious Engineer Lear had been fired. Disappointed, he drifted until 1929, then on his own introduced the Motorola (first practical commercial radio for automobiles). Two years later he got interested in airplane radio, began to find his stride...