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...House Naval Affairs Committee, chairmanned by Georgia's dumpy, turtle-faced Carl Vinson, had set itself a tedious task: to investigate progress of the Navy building program, discover the profiteers and blast them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Profiteering | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...returns, one of the big income-tax loopholes will probably be enacted, getting the Treasury some $325,000,000 to $500,000,000 more-a provision aimed at the eight States which have community-property laws. > Corporation excess-profits taxes: last year Congress raised all brackets 10%. When the Vinson Committee reports soon on shipbuilding profits, some of which range to 200%, such a squawk is expected that taxperts figured that Congress would raise rates so steeply as to pick up another billion dollars. > Manufacturers' excise taxes: if Congress can be kept from providing exemptions this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Care of the Goose | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...Among dozens of proposals: measures to mete out life imprisonment, even death to those who foment strikes in defense industries. Only bill that has a chance of being acted upon: the Vinson Bill, which allows the Mediation Board to freeze the status of a plant, pending the Board's decision on a dispute provides for a 30-day "cooling off" period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hip & Thigh | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Richard K. Martin is the present Editor-in-Chief and O. Floyd Vinson is chairman of the photo board. The Yearbook will go to press sometime between December 7 and 13, and will be distributed between the 13th and the 16th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW SCHOOL BOOK HONORS DRAFTED MEN | 10/28/1941 | See Source »

Aviation Cadet Vinson Wieser was lost on a cross-country night flight. He had only a half-hour of gasoline in his tanks. He headed his plane for the brightest spot he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Forced Landing | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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