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...will bear major responsibility for the new bill-and as one who hopes to get a bill by Christmas-Senator George now spoke up for the sales tax, main quick source of revenue yet untapped. With the Administration so far violently opposed to the sales tax, which would clip every voter exactly when it hurt most, this now loomed as the tax issue of the year. The public got ready for a battle that might out-rumble the Ruml Plan fight of last session...
...walking down to Harvard Square for lunch yesterday when I met an electron. He was coming down the sidewalk at a pretty fast clip (186,000 miles a second) and I saluted him as he passed. (Electronics are military personnel now, you know, and they rate a salute...
This does not mean that the highly successful officer candidate system will be abandoned. Each of the 19 schools in the U.S. will be continued, at a slower clip, and with stiffer competition for the available appointments. So will schools for officers in England and Australia (schools in two South Pacific islands have been abandoned). The rate of attrition among officers-due to battle casualties and health-has been high, especially in the South Sea jungles, where Jap snipers lie in wait for the man who issues commands...
...industry, the game industry is doing more business than ever before. It is riding an Army & Navy boom: practically every serviceman's kit includes a pack of cards, a checker board or a backgammon set, and the U.S. Army recently ordered 1,500,000 dice at one clip...
...frame of mind last week, for the frame was shaken. Rommel having moved before the Allies were set in Africa was one thing; he was an attacker from way back. But for the Germans to attack in Russia, not just locally, but vastly, 80 miles at a clip (see p. 25)-that was different. The knowledge that U-boats were swarming in on American shores, which had been long unmolested (see p. 20)-that was different...