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Under the plan, a corporation is allowed to deduct the expense of a new unit from its income at a faster-than-normal rate, thus reducing the firm's tax payments in the early years of the new plant's operations. Last week a House Government Operations subcommittee took a sharp look at the program to see 1) how it is working, and 2) whether it should be continued. (Between June 30 and July 13, shortly before the investigation began, 40 new grants were issued, covering $47,768,434 worth of new plants.) The committee was not impressed...
Last week Casmir Andrews, 40, walked briskly from a red jeep station wagon into a modernistic new building in downtown Toledo: the Diagnostic Clinic of the Willys Unit. Local 12, United Auto Workers. So far as Andrews knew, there was nothing wrong with him. That was the point. He was going in for a thorough physical checkup, an exhaustive 1½-hour going over by doctors, with half a dozen or more lab tests to follow. At going rates for Toledo doctors' and medical labs, this would cost anywhere from $150 to $200. Shop Steward Andrews...
...years. Freeman told how in 1938 he and his wife (once a reporter herself) were persuaded by Milton Kaufman, then executive vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, that the Communist Party was the "leading influence" in the Guild. But at his first meeting of the New York Times unit of the Communist Party, he was shocked to find himself the only member of the editorial department, although there were half a dozen other Times employees there. A year later Freeman broke with the Communists, because party-line discussions proved "dull and fruitless," and activities "inept and futile." After...
...started the company's Italian subsidiary in 1927, three years later took charge of Colgate's ten European subsidiaries. In 1940 Sims was named assistant to President E. H. Little (now board chairman and chief executive officer), later headed OPA's chemical and drug unit in Washington, became a Colgate vice president in 1945, and in 1953 first president of the newly organized Colgate-Palmolive International, which in 1954 sold $162,500,000 worth of goods abroad. New International president is Ralph A. Hart, who has been its vice president in charge of European sales and advertising...
...area. The Tree Crasher, 39 ft. long and 11 ft. high, smashes through jungles on six huge rubber-tired wheels 4 ft. wide and 10 ft. tall, each powered by its own electric motor. The motors, in turn, are powered by two diesel generators near the center of the unit...