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...lumber mill produces a load of wood with a market price of $25; this price represents practically all the "value" that the mill has added to the raw timber by buying and converting it to lumber. On a VAT of 3% the mill pays the Government 75?. This cost, separately invoiced, is tacked to the price of the lumber, which is then sold to a cabinetmaker for $25.75. The manufacturer transforms the lumber into a cabinet, increasing its market value from $25 to $75. On the $50 value added, the cabinetmaker pays another 3%, or $1.50. When selling the cabinet...
...certain loser. "If the repairs are not completed immediately," a member of the restoration team told TIME'S David DeVoss, "all our efforts will be wasted. Most of the walls are supported only by wooden beams and sand. When the sand blows away and the rain rots the timber, Angkor Wat will be only a memory...
Environmentalists generally applauded the message. Indeed, their objections focused on Nixon's omissions rather than his proposals. He neglected to attack overpopulation as a factor in pollution; he did not announce an expected ban on clear-cutting of timber on public lands, and he failed to bar the Corps of Engineers from issuing permits to fill in wetlands, the nursery for most marine life...
...begun a homesteading program that will initially settle 300 families, many of them urban welfare clients, on wooded ten-acre farms near Stringtown. This month the first families will begin moving in. Each will receive a chain saw with which to clear the land, then will sell the timber in order to begin paying for the land at $80 an acre. Within three or four years, the homesteaders should be harvesting regular fruit crops and earning some $7,000 a year per family...
With Bobby Kennedy passing and Eugene McCarthy licking his wounds, the United States, in 1968, was forced into a new age of political iconoclasm. No "image-maker" can make much of what serious presidential timber we have left. McGovern, who is the nicest of the bunch, and Lindsay, who is the handsomest, have little fire to offer compared to the heat generated by either the Kennedy or the McCarthy campaign. Shirley Chisholm, whose personality is far more electrifying than any other candidate's, is unlikely to get the kind of money or delegate support needed to be elected president...