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...Forswear all Federal sales and excise taxes (except on tobacco, liquor and perhaps gasoline), because such taxes boost the price of goods and reduce sales. Such taxes, say Ruml & Sonne, are deflationary, lit the lowest incomes hardest...
...only real answer is greater production. The original 1944 goal was 17,500,000 heavy tires for civilian and military uses; thus far, production had averaged about 1,200,000 tires a month. To boost production, Rubber Boss Dewey got the Army to release fully trained tire workers over 30, and stepped up the pace of the $75,000,000 equipment-expansion program...
...gallons of 100-octane during May, with even greater consumption due in months to come. But if refiners can produce even a little more than they are making now, PAW is confident that production will somehow exceed the 1944 estimates of 196,000,000 bbl. To help the boost, they will get 400,000 bbl. of butylenese, diverted this week by Rubber Director Col. Bradley Dewey from the rubber progrram to octane manufacture...
...overall drag (air resistance) is so low that when the wheels are down the drag is doubled. The flying controls are so delicately balanced that no auxiliary power or "boost" is necessary for the pilot to operate them. This conserves the "feel" that flyers value so much. Test pilots call theB-29 a very "sweet" airplane...
Twentieth Century now has a plan afoot -devised by Spyros-which may boost his income substantially. Fortnight ago Twentieth Century stockholders by a vote of 1,569,000 to 100,000 shares (largest vote in company history) approved a plan to give Spyros and 19 other company executives options to buy 140,000 shares of Twentieth Century stock in the next eight years at 24-¼:. As president, Skouras can buy 70,000 shares. The rest will be split among 19 officials, down to an assistant sales manager (salary $15,000 a year...