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...better-known shipyards of Bremen, Clydeside and Yokohama. The country still ranks only twelfth in gross registered tonnage among shipbuilding nations. But Poland's annual output has risen 50% just since 1970, to 750,000 deadweight tons, and shipbuilding has become the country's second largest earner of foreign currency, after coal. Polish shipbuilding has become one of the few Communist bloc industries ca pable of competing in the West on straight commercial terms. Capitalist nations last year bought almost $200 million worth of Polish ships, about half the country's exported production and one-third more...
...acknowledgment of the reordered priorities that Tanaka spoke of so feelingly before the election. What of the tax reductions that he promised would be "the largest in history"? They work out to $50 a year-enough to buy four bottles of beer a week-for the average Japanese salary earner struggling to support a wife and two children on $7,000 a year. Increased emphasis on social welfare? Partly because land prices have soared since Tanaka began talking about his sweeping environmental plans, the national housing agency will spend 27% more this year but build 10% fewer homes. Inflation curbs...
...call for tax reform is favored by a solid majority of all panelists. The danger he faces on this issue is that of overpromising, for most of the panelists equate the closing of loopholes for the rich with a lowering of the taxes of the average wage earner. Of all the Senator's programs, his welfare reform plan causes the most confusion. Panelists want to see the welfare "mess" straightened out, but they are dubious about the implications of a program they do not understand. "Some people need all the help they can get, but others are just freeloading...
...public subsidy has been firmly established, with a $350,000 contribution from the city, $200,000 from New York State and $100,000 from Washington. Beyond that, Two Gentlemen of Verona, which started as a four-week production in the park last summer, has become the biggest money earner on Broadway and its profits keep alive such worthy but unprofitable plays as Sticks and Bones, until they find an audience of their...
...long-term performance of the value-added tax, which President Nixon is reported to be considering [Feb. 28], is devastating. It creates a phenomenal burden to mass consumption and distribution, overtaxes the wage earner, favors the large and long-established industries while sterilizing the young and aggressive ones. More than 1,000 blind politicians, it has the frightening power to freeze an economy...