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When Tax Expert Beardsley (pay-as-you-go) Ruml went to Washington two months ago to denounce an excess profits tax, Senators told him an astounding fact. Though most businessmen believed that such a tax was unfair, unsound and wasteful, few besides Ruml had taken the trouble to fight it. Reason: they saw no hope of beating a tax as politically popular as it is economically unsound (TIME...
...rationalization of every dose-and amount-should be undertaken," said Captain Oilman. "We must abandon the thought current in some quarters that this antibiotic is a cure-all or that its prophylactic use is justified. Not only is the routine use before all operations, dental as well as surgical, unsound, but the facility with which it is administered for almost every complaint . . . needs to be halted...
...given to dreaming. When he sized up the King Ranch two-year-old crop last year, he earmarked three colts-Air Lift, Beau Max and Middleground-for future greatness. Air Lift, the most promising, broke an ankle in his first race and had to be destroyed. Beau Max proved unsound, never trained or raced to expectation. Middleground, despite a suspicious ankle, won four of his five races and topped the Experimental Handicap ratings...
Almost without exception, the major TV manufacturers denounced the FCC decision in favor of CBS. Board Chairman David Sarnoff of RCA labeled it "scientifically unsound and against the public interest." TV Pioneer Allen B. Du Mont snorted: "The decision just says to hell with the people who already own television sets." Pilot Radio Corp. threatened federal court action against FCC because it had "exceeded its jurisdiction." The Radio-Television Manufacturers Association called a special closed meeting on color TV, refused admittance to a CBS representative...
...turned down a law providing income tax cuts for middle and upper-income groups in Germany. The Germans argued that lower taxes would bring a higher percentage of honest returns. U.S. experts insisted that this was "like bribing a man to be honest." The U.S. experts also condemned as unsound a tax exemption for profits plowed back into business expansion; they were afraid this might result in expansion of what they considered the wrong industries...