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...actually, everybody was out of step but Mr. Taft. His basic point was perfectly true: that the only promising source of further tax revenue is a higher tax rate on lower-income groups. As for increased tax rates on business, said he: "We would only be fooling ourselves. Taxes on business are passed on to the people, but tend to discourage business activity...
...must have unity in national defense, said he significantly, "Lest we each hang separately." Evidence that that unity was lacking had cropped up with increasing frequency in recent weeks. It was plain in the strike at the Vultee plant, which for twelve days stopped delivery of badly needed basic trainers to the Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal, written protest (later swallowed) of President John G. Pew of Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that his company could not answer charges of unfair labor practice, and at the same time go ahead with a $69,000,000 Navy...
...even in its present form is Ec A intended to complete the theoretical groundwork of the concentrator. For that purpose the Department offers two basic courses in theory--Ec 2a, a half-year course, and Ec 1, open only to candidates for Honors. While 2a is too dull to be controversial, Ec 1 is a sprightly study in confusion. Discussion is lively and disorderly; agricultural tractors are freely converted into printing presses; and everybody catches on just in time to earn the expected A or B. Anchored only to the graphs on the blackboard, Ec 1 floats freely...
...Corps cadets used to get a year's schooling at Randolph and nearby Kelly Field. Randolph gave them their primary training in simple, low-horsepowered planes, and an intermediate ("basic") course in faster, higher-powered (400-450 h.p.) ships. They finished at Kelly on still bigger & faster ships, were then ready for tactical duties, second lieutenants' commissions. Early this year, to meet the expanding Air Corps's demand for more pilots, the courses at Randolph and Kelly were telescoped to ten weeks each. Primary training was farmed out to 18 private schools...
...theory of emergent evolution holds that space, time, matter, life are not independent of each other but form an organic whole. Reiser's basic space-time-matter trinity is about as mystical a concept as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. He finds it religiously inspiring, scientifically sound. Typical points...