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Professor A. A. Young, Professor of Economics said: "I do not agree with President Coolidge's statement that the bases of taxation should be scientifically revised downward as it does not seem to me that tax reduction is a matter of prime importance at the present time. I heartily agree with his suggestion that income taxes should not be made public in the future, as was the case this year...
MacPhail and Colvin, by means of psychological and other tests, surveyed the mentality of 3,333 boys and girls in senior classes of Massachusetts high schools. They found that a curve representing their subjects' intelligence followed closely the downward trend of another curve representing the incomes pf their subjects' parents. Professional men stood at the top of the income graph; their children at the top of the mentality index. Farmers and their children footed both indices...
...rests solidly on a metal pontoon, and with the landing gear drawn up, the craft is a seaplane. But let the pilot press on a button, and a small electric motor, driven by a storage battery, releases landing wheels at the side of the pontoon, draws them out and downward and in eleven seconds the craft is a land plane. In the first tests the amphibian made 30 landings alternately on land and water without a hitch...
...federal government can not rightfully impose tariff duties except for the purpose of securing revenue. The high Republican tariff is an instrument for the arbitrary redistribution of wealth. We pledge ourselves to a tariff for revnue only, arrived at by a gradual period of readjustment, downward revision of all duties beginning immediately...
Looping is one of the simplest airplane maneuvers. The pilot dives his ship steeply towards the earth and gains tremendous speed. He then turns his elevator or horizontal up, so that the rush of air bears downward on the tail of his plane. Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve...