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...still has headaches: it lacks authority to force a community to prepare for raids (British authorities can withhold funds for equipment from a town that will not cooperate). Here & there OCD is helpless in a muddle of city politics. It suffers a shortage of certain fire-fighting paraphernalia, of gasproof and decontamination clothing...
After World War I, Britain sent Rutland as technical officer to Japan, instructed him to "withhold nothing" from the ally she was wooing. In the House of Commons last week plain-talking Admiral Sir Roger Keyes told the rest of Rutland's story: "He stayed in Japan until 1923 and returned home again for five years. He then asked to return to Japan. For the following five years he acted in America as a secret service agent for Japan. He had been given the names of American naval officers, with whom he dealt...
...rate on so-called normal profits from last year's 31% to a new high of 40%. In England business pays only 5% on its normal profits, and even that 5% can be deducted from any excess-profits levy the corporation may have to pay. (The British also withhold at the source the minimum 50% personal income tax, but this is not a tax on business. Stockholders can deduct the full amount from their individual income-tax payments, can even claim a refund if they are tax-exempt...
...staff of the Lovell Hospital of Fort Devens thought it strategic to withhold their pitching ace Joe Waish from facing the Crimson last week and save him for a league game the following day, the results of their calculations ought to have changed their minds...
...Sabotage, for the first time in any U.S. war, is classified as a military secret. Whether this far-from-clarified taboo serves to withhold "aid & comfort" from the enemy is debatable, but it has succeeded in creating the erroneous impression that sabotage in this war, unlike World War I, is virtually nonexistent...