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Minister Pleven also asked for a 3% to 20% tax on increment of wealth during the war (a "moral" necessity aimed at collaborationist profits). He calculated his two measures would yield revenues of 130 billion francs. He based his figures on a Government census of fortunes, in itself a radical departure from French financial tradition. Hitherto a passionate anonymity has shrouded the wealth of individual Frenchmen. The Government, said Minister Pleven, had discovered that France had 1,300 billion francs of national wealth in liquid form. His levies on wealth would siphon off 10% of this liquidity...
...scheme for bringing him to work bright and shining. They hired men to tail him nightly, bet him $100 he wouldn't be in shape to work the next day. Never a loose man with a dollar, the comedian couldn't refuse the tempting increment. For a while the ruse worked. But when he returned from a European trip with his wife a few years later, there was no work for him in Hollywood. That was old stuff to Trooper Oakie...
...divisions will each have their own reconnaissance corps, anti-tank gun corps, and the like. The actual four projected mechanized divisions will be smaller, trained separately, requiring carefully selected men to fill out their increment...
...largest increase in enrollment was found in the field of Biology, where there was a 29-student rise from 106 to 135. A further movement toward the sciences was shown in Geological Sciences and Architectural Sciences (a new field created last year), the former receiving an increment of 11 men, 64 to 75; and the latter...
...Naval Science, on the other hand, the second year course dropped in size from 73 to 69 while the third year jumped from 39 all the way to 62. The 33 men in Naval Sci 4 represent an increment of only 4 from last year. 265 men, 50 more than last year, are in the Department...