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...Treasurymen were not fooled. The wave of suddenly recovered memories dovetailed with another record: a whopping $1,102,000,000 in extra taxes and penalties collected from taxpayers who had tried to short-change the Government and had got caught at it. Most of the 111,000 on the honesty rolls had merely broken out in uneasy sweat and had kicked in voluntarily to avoid trouble. The sorry fact: never before had so many taxpayers tried to cheat in such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Uneasy | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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