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...Little Business. The committee urged one outright tax cut, primarily to help little business. The cut: a boost in the excess profits tax specific exemption from $10,000 to $25,000. Thus any busi ness making less than $25,000 a year would pay no excess profits tax. At one stroke, this would take from "one-third to one-half" of all U.S. businesses out from under the tax. Estimated tax saving: $160 million a year...
...bogey of federal control of schools; some Catholics are afraid that their parochial schools would suffer; many a Congressman suspects selfish motives in the bill's main lobbyist, the National Education Association, whose membership is composed overwhelmingly of teachers (who stand to gain a $200-million-a-year boost in total salaries...
...long, bitter war, the market started up. Reason: the war was bound to bail out many a floundering company. Stocks fell soon after Dday, at the prospect of an early peace, fell again when U.S. troops jumped the Rhine. President Roosevelt's death gave them a lusty boost (TIME, April 23). Perversely, in the fa ce of an end to the German war, they have risen ever since...
Last week, the market barely shivered at something which has caused a slump before: the prospect of a margin boost...
...with much buying of cheap stocks, the market value of all stocks has risen nearly twice as high as the averages (see cut). But brokers are as unconcerned over any margin boost as they are over V-E day. The reason: most stock buying is for cash. As long as it is, they are confident that the market is firm enough to withstand any peace shocks in prospect...