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...almost from Strauss's first days as head of the Atomic Energy Commission, Anderson complained that Strauss deliberately withheld information from the Joint Congressional Committee, thereby evading his responsibility under the Atomic Energy Act to keep the committee "fully and currently informed" about AEC matters. Anderson was openly annoyed on several occasions when Strauss released headline-making nuclear news, beating the congressional committee to the punch. But every time Anderson moved onto the offensive, Lewis Strauss, incapable of quietly accepting criticism or the hint of criticism, fought back with all his natural aggressiveness...
Wages Up. In the boom's early years, profits went mainly into the pockets of owners and managers, or back into expansion. Labor docilely withheld wage demands while industry rebuilt, and heeded the argument that costs had to be kept low to compete in international markets. Now workers and salaried white collar people are sharing in the benefits of the economic "miracle." Since 1948, wages have more than doubled, but they still average only $27 per week. The traditional 48-hr, work week is gone: Germans work 45 hours, are heading toward 40. To supplement family incomes, wives often...
...thing Mack did not do, said the Internal Revenue Service, was pay all his taxes, even though he withheld them from employees' salaries. He had not remitted $60,850 in withholding taxes, charged the tax collectors, or $1,042,355 in corporation, social security, and unemployment benefit taxes. Mack himself was slapped with claims for $132,240 in individual taxes. Padlocking a business in a "jeopardy assessment" is a rare step for the IRS, but the revenuers had failed to get enough tax money from Slenderella after two years of negotiations, decided to seize the assets while they were...
...that have suffered economically, and such help is given in housing, urban renewal, farm support programs, rural electrification and other ways. But "the effort here is not to give one group of citizens special privilege or undeserved advantage. Rather it is to see that equality of opportunity is not withheld from the citizen...
...society. But many universities receiving federal aid manage to survive despite them; Harvard, for example, will match a federal award for any deserving applicant who refuses to sign the oath. Not all schools, however, are as well-off as Harvard, and it is possible that funds could be unjustly withheld because of the loyalty oath requirement...