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...present method of collecting the income tax payment has the basic defect that tax payments are not synchronized with the receipt of the income on which the tax is based. ... A suitable pay-as-you-go method will be of great assistance to millions of persons." (Point One of the Ruml plan: get taxpayers on a current basis by letting them pay 1943 taxes while they are earning 1943's income...
...good for a nation and that booms are bad. The crimp in OPA's reasoning is, of course, that arguments about price levels must always be combined with attention to whether production of goods is rising or falling, and what kind of goods are being produced. The basic reason why all U.S. citizens must sacrifice now has little to do with prices, and everything to do with the fact that, despite record production for war, the supply of consumer goods is declining...
Uncle Sam. In a speech to his constituents in 1942 Eden expounded, in his tired, high-pitched voice, the basic issue of British foreign policy. It was simply: "We are determined to keep in close touch with the U.S. in all matters of policy, and we have also specifically pledged ourselves in the Anglo-Soviet treaty to collaborate fully in postwar reconstruction with Soviet Russia." On home-front issues he has said: "Never again must we tolerate chronic unemployment, extremes of wealth and poverty, slums and the lack of opportunity for so many which disfigured our national life...
Thirty-one ROTC men from the Class of '43, and 68 men from the Quartermasters School are now at Fort Devens for basic training, following their induction here Saturday morning...
...active service in the Navy after seven years as director of the American South African Line, and nearly 20 years of sea duty during which he once skippered a ship on which Joe Curran was serving as a common seaman. Under Wauchope's direction, trainees at Sheepshead get basic lifeboat-handling drill, elementary courses in deck seamanship, and engineering courses in which they stand regular watch at equipment duplicating conditions aboard Liberty ships...