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...guess so," came the sheepish answer...
...asked for more taxes, leaving types and amounts to Congress. But he left no doubt that he is utterly opposed to sales taxes or processing taxes which do not disturb profits, but soak the consumer. Ability to pay he fixed as the guiding principle. From these clues taxperts could guess the shape of the bill that will destroy next spring's beauty for many a citizen: stiffer excess-profits taxes* (not a straight-out increase in regular corporate income-tax rates); another increase in surtax rates on incomes, probably on those in the so-called "savings" brackets, between...
...quakes in northeastern North America, whose rocks are old and relatively stable, are caused by an intermittent, jerky rising of the earth crust released from the great weight of the last Glacial Age. Dr. Leet dissents from this view, at least to the extent of pigeonholing it as a guess. In the Harvard Alumni Bulletin last week, he declared that deep forces are at work under New England and eastern Canada-moreover that the region is in a period of "increasing seismicity." He notes that relatively strong shocks were felt...
...waives claim to properties in areas ceded by Rumania (to Russia, Hungary), and still owns a $500,000 manufacturing plant to supply what will probably become a nationalized Rumanian Telephone Co. What I. T. & T. plans to do with the money President Behn will not say. Best guess is that I. T. & T. will use it to bolster its cash position, build up its properties in friendlier South America...
...also the songs themselves, which can best be described in the language of their composers, as "strictly from hunger." In other words, they stink, and no two ways about it. That includes everything, from God Bless America, I Am An American, He's My Uncle, (Sam--how did you guess?), right down (and I do mean down) to Ballad For Americans, the latter designed to appeal to those intellectuals still hanging on to the battered remains of a party line. (Although I'll qualify this by saying that Paul Robeson's voice is definitely worth the corny lyrics...