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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...