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...Woodin (grandson of William H. Woodin, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Secretary of the Treasury) is assistant director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Trailside Museum. His purpose: to explore the intimate lives of all Southwestern reptiles, a subject not well known. Since reptiles are "coldblooded" (i.e., have no built-in thermostats as mammals do), they must adjust their activities to the temperature around them. In cold weather they are sluggish, and if they stay out too long in Arizona's searing sun, they die of heat prostration. So Woodin believes that an important step toward understanding the life...
Revolution in Connecticut. Moving to New Canaan, Conn, in 1946, Noyes built himself a flat-roofed modern house, convinced a neighbor that he ought to have one too. Soon, modern houses were sprouting like dandelions in New Canaan, and Architect Noyes built a dozen of the handsomest-gay, roomy homes with lots of glass, flat, sweeping lines, and without the stark, cold look that makes many modern homes so forbidding. Prices: $15,000 to $150,000. Noyes likes to plan a whole house down to built-in furniture and faucets, does not believe in drawing a line between the architect...
...strikes me "that our return to political sanity, as evidenced at the polls last November, might just possibly hold some promise of a return to economic sanity and automobiles that are functional to a degree, with the gingerbread and built-in mortgages left...
...through the stylish canyons, For Sale signs sprouted. Hedy Lamarr set a fashion in elegant liquidation when she turned over her whole house to the auctioneer in June 1951. Everything went, including a wedding band inscribed in German ("You are my only love") and an evening gown with built-in, foam-rubber falsies...
Actually, "excess profits tax" is a misnomer. The law does not merely take the "excess" profits, but starts its levy as soon as profits reach 85% of "normal," i.e., what they were during the "base period" of 1946-49. Furthermore, the tax has a built-in discrimination in the choice of payments. A company may elect to pay a tax based on its 1946-49 earnings, or one based on a fixed return (8%) on its total capitalization. Thus, debt-ridden companies with huge capitalizations, like many railroads, escape the tax. But well-run companies that keep their debt...