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WHEN LAST I DIED-Gladys Mitchell -Knopf ($2). This marks the welcome reappearance of Mrs. Adela Bradley, elderly, erudite and sardonic British dabbler in deduction. From an old diary she gets her first clue to a trio of brutal slayings, holds an eerie investigation of a houseful of poltergeists, and...
Over 5100 officers and employees of the University may now participate in an optional salary deduction plan for the purchase of War Savings Bonds, Dean Chase and William H. Claflin, Jr. '15, treasurer of Harvard College, jointly announced yesterday.
>On Feb. 10 the Gallup Poll indicated that 66% of full-time employes in all occupations would welcome a 10% pay deduction to buy defense bonds and stamps.
The plan would be voluntary; employers would contribute the whole fund; and the Treasury would get the money now, when it needs it. The plan also included a neat inflation brake: although there would be no deduction from current wages, 75% of all wage increases would go into the fund...
Many a Congressman was ready to join the cry for a general sales tax. But a new argument was used against it: that it would increase costs and force increases in OPA's price ceilings, starting a cycle of inflation. Other tax possibilities: > Corporation taxes, now 24% (normal) plus...