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...Treasury Committee on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations this week released a six-volume report examining in detail the problem of federal-state-local fiscal relations. One major problem graphically discussed is the impact on the taxpayer of the overlapping of these three tax-collecting Governments within the U.S. (see chart). In 1941, reported the study, the five big sources of tax revenue were: the corporation income tax ($2.2 billion); personal income ($1.7 billion); motor fuel ($1.3 billion); payroll ($1.9 billion) and realty ($4.5 billion...
...this vast disruption of U.S. life seemed inevitable. Still untapped was the reservoir of draftable manpower from 38 to 45, but Selective Service estimates show that in this group the military pickings are thin and thinner. The dwindling number of single men among the older-age group (see chart) no longer meant anything to Selective Service. But the steady decline in physical fitness from 18 to 45 (which was well known) did. The weight of the draft must fall on the man under 30, married...
...strong point of the buying was not in blue chips. What kept the tickers chattering was small-lot customers paying hard cash for "cats & dogs"-stocks selling under $5 a share (see chart...
...started . . . that day in the Whitehall, office. It was in that high and solemn room with a view of the Thames that we were first shown the small-scale chart of Norway with a blue circle round the fiord the island and the fortified pimple islet set off at one corner...
...rapid expansion now, there will be need for new private capital expenditures after the war. In the past, continuous high capital outlays have been a key to prosperity: thus the big investments which steel firms made in new continuous strip mills in 1936 and 1937 (as indicated on the chart) played an important part in the 1937 recovery. Whether industry discovers such new technologies after the war and invests in them will have a lot to do with whether private capitalism works...