Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...brackets British income and supertax payers are being assessed 85% -basic British income tax rate is 37½%. The Chancellor last week invaded lower brackets, making supertax begin at incomes of $5,250 instead of $7,000, and again treating the British white-collar class rough. A married but childless Briton making $1,050 whose income tax was $17.50 the year before last and $24.50 last year will...
...long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper and the other a sprinkler. Wroth, Trotsky called Schachtman "the floating kidney of the working class...
When he went to Persia in 1925, the graduating class at Teheran University asked him to make a speech on philosophy. Instead, he told them about Persia's own glorious artistic past. The young Persians, who knew more about Henry Ford than they did about Darius, were surprised. Pope was asked to do it again before the Cabinet. The Prime Minister, who became the Shah that year, was so impressed that he gave Pope permission to ransack the art treasures of the country. Pope, sometimes disguised as a Moslem convert, has photographed and collected art works in every part...
Against this rule the Allies made no headway so long as World War II was merely a threat. The French bought obsolescent Curtiss P-36s, surprised most U. S. airmen after war came by showing that they could put on a first-class show against the more advanced Messerschmitt log. The British bought Lockheed Hudsons, North American trainers, long past the secret stage. The one-year rule was first broken last September when the French were allowed to buy a new Douglas attack-bomber. Everybody knew the reason: the Air Corps was already interested in a new and better Douglas...
Last week in Washington the Anglo-French Purchasing Board released figures that put aviation indisputably at the head of the war-baby class. To U. S. aircraft and engine manufacturers had gone recent and new orders of more than $200,000,000. for something like 2,450 planes, 3,200 engines. Total of all U. S. aircraft pur chases by the Allies since the outbreak of war: $650,000,000, almost three times the total of aircraft sales for 1939, more than twice the aggregate value of U. S. aero nautical exports to the world market in the past...