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...produced a chemical known as methylcholanthrene, a complex compound of hydrogen and carbon which is very powerful in producing cancer in test animals. This chemical can also be obtained from the bile acids of the human body; therefore, cancer cay be the result of abnormal physiological actions which lead to the manufacture within the body of some chemical of the methylcholanthrene type...
...killing undistributed profits tax entirely, substituting a flat 18% levy on all corporate income, with exemptions for corporations earning less than $25,000; 2) killing the House's complex capital gains tax, substituting a flat 15% on capital gains arising from the sale of assets held over 18 months, reducing taxes on short term capital gains and capital gains by taxpayers in low income brackets; 3) an amendment introduced by Idaho's Borah removing exemption provisions from all future issues of Government securities...
...prestige and the national culture of national advertising. "No human eye," says Author Mumford, "can take in this metropolitan mass at a glance. No single gathering place except the totality of its streets can hold all its citizens. No human mind can comprehend more than a fragment of the complex and minutely specialized activities of its citizens. There is a special name for power when it is concentrated on such a scale: it is called impotence." One proof of impotence is that almost every step the metropolis has taken to deal with congestion has actually increased it. Subways route millions...
...problems of turning out a newspaper in Bermuda are many and complex, the foremost being the difficulty of obtaining news. Next to this comes the problem of finding out the color of the Names in the News. When Bermudians read about T. V. Soong or F. D. Roosevelt or H. Selassie, they like to close their eyes and visualize, and they can't do this unless told the exact hue of these celebrities...
...were convicted in Madison, Wis. last January of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Federal Judge Patrick Thomas Stone withheld sentence pending motions for a new trial. Last week, he listened to an argument that the jury's verdict should be set aside because the jurors deliberated the complex case only seven hours, which was not enough time to give each defendant the individual consideration specifically ordered by Judge Stone. Meanwhile, in Washington, a Senate committee, studying a bill to require separation of marketing petroleum from producing, refining and transporting it. heard monopoly-hating Senator Borah claim that "four...