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Many career employees have been dismissed, but now most of the R.I.F. notices are going to the indefinites. Last week's major cuts: i) the International Information Administration announced it will dismiss 2,000 and abolish 500 jobs in which there are vacancies, 2) the Veterans Administration began discharging 1,000 from its insurance division...
...week's end the Ministry of Agriculture flatly refused to abolish the battery system. It would mean the loss of 150 million eggs a year, said the ministry, and Britain cannot afford that. "In a battery, a hen is protected from the things it dislikes most," said the official announcement. "They are: heavy rain, excessive wind, excessive cold or heat, bullying and cannibalism. Whether the bird itself has views, we do not know. But . . . too many people think of hens in human terms. They say the birds can't lie down [in the batteries]. A hen doesn...
Movie-theater owners, hard hit by TV, were jubilant last month when a bill to abolish the 20% federal tax on movie tickets sailed through the House in only two hours of debate, took only 45 minutes in the Senate. By last week the same men were apprehensive. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey disapproved of the bill, and into his office trooped a covey of hand-wringing moviemen to urge him to change his mind. While such potent Hollywood brass as Paramount's Barney Balaban, 20th Century-Fox's Spyros Skouras and Columbia's Jack Cohn were...
...Abolish penalties for undervaluation of imported articles. Under the old law, imports were dutiable at the value declared by the importer or the value placed on them by the Government's appraiser, whichever was higher. If the importer underestimated the dutiable value, he had to pay a penalty; if he overestimated it, he paid duties on an unrealistically high valuation. Now, the final appraised value becomes the basis for duties, with no penalty if the estimate...
...Abolish the annoying customs bonds now required of foreign tourists passing through the U.S. with dutiable articles worth $200 or less...