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...turkey that Mr. Morgenthau and his luncheon guests expect to cut so soon after the New Year will probably include a far meatier excess-profits tax, fatter taxes on corporation incomes, higher personal-income taxes. It might include the 15% withholding tax on salaries that Mr. Morgenthau wanted last month, increased Social Security taxes, compulsory joint returns for husbands & wives. It will probably be at least $5 billion bigger than 1941's bill...
...luscious Lana Turner, this blissful ascent to stardom is not unlike a drastic year-end model change at General Motors. Not long ago the most that was asked of her was to wear a sweater fetchingly. Now M.G.M., after a slight build-up (fatter roles in Ziegfeld Girl and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), has demanded that she act as well as strut. She comes through surprisingly well, although the 1941 Turner may have to undergo a little more streamlining before she can hold the road at high speed...
...engineers and firemen in passenger train service is based on 100 miles or five hours, whichever makes the fatter envelope. Thus the engineer on the Santa Fe's crack El Capitan makes $15.77 for the 2½-hour, 203-mile run between Dodge City, Kans. and La Junta, Colo...
...revenue. Finally in 1939 finances demanded a complete revision of format and policy. The Transcript under new management blossomed forth with the "Newscope," front page pictures, headlines and unfamiliar makeups, without the usual Jay ad in the left-hand corner. But the five cent tariff and fatter editions failed to offset the continued small circulation...
Between 1866 and 1890 something like ten million Longhorns were marched out of Texas into the North and West. Within a few more years, railroads had made possible the shipping of fatter, fancier meat. The Longhorn was doomed...