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This was the man who three months ago assured the country the war would end in 1943-there was no cause for alarm. The Congress he addressed was the same Congress that 14 months ago haggled and wrangled and squeezed out an extension of the draft by a hair's breadth. But now war's reverses had tempered and sharpened the Congress as it was sharpening democracy itself...
...rose grey, lanky Majority Leader John W. McCormack. He wanted to make a few "temperate statements" about New Yorker James W. Wadsworth's bill to lower the draft age to 18 years-a bill on which Franklin Roosevelt and the War Department had given the go-ahead just five days earlier. Almost impersonally he began: "This Congress is going to be judged by what we do today, as to whether we have preserved our trust-as to what we do to protect America today. We should vote with vision and courage. If we lose this...
...than most of the adventuresome 2,500,000 youngsters now eligible for Armageddon. Many (one estimate: 400,000) already were in the armed forces. Many more this week were storming recruiting centers to enlist, inspired more by knowing this is a young man's war than fearing the draft...
...ground seemed stunned by the great flock of Lancasters and the noise. We saw no fighters on the way, but a duck came through the windshield with a wallop. My front gunner's turret was filled with feathers and the hole in the windshield let in an awful draft." And so precise was the R.A.F. timing that the first planes hit Le Creusot at 6:09 and the last dumped its load seven minutes later...
...corporations some financial incentive to keep down costs and turn out more goods. The Treasury's proposed 55% normal-plus-surtax rate (on corporations with more than $25,000 incomes) was hammered down to 45% in the House, down to the Senate's 40% in the final draft. Excess-profits tax rates soar up to 90% but the conference adopted the Senate proposal providing that no more than 80% of any company's net income shall be taken by taxes. For companies with low pre-war earnings and extra-fat current profits this means a real saving...