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Economy Wave. The inflation battle saw skirmishes on other fronts last week. "Old Muley" Doughton's Ways & Means Committee finally reported a tax bill calling for no more than a $2.1 billion tax increase. The hell with the Treasury's $10.5 billion demand, said the hard-worked committee, our raise is enough. To help the committee along, Pennsylvania's Representative J. Buell Snyder reported that the Army & Navy are ready to cut current expenditures by a whopping $18 billion. That enormous whack took a great deal of sting out of many a patriot's desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: The Battle Is Not the Pay-off | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...room in the Fort Steuben Hotel, Cas stripped off his scarred leather jacket and overalls. (He wore no underwear.) The trainer studied his body. The verdict: "A hell of a man with a beautiful pair of legs." Blaik interested Ohio Congressman George H. Bender, who appointed Myslinski to the Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steelworker's Boy | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Suffering from one of the worst creative slumps in years, Broadway is enjoying one of the greatest box-office booms in history. Packing the theaters are coin-heavy, gas-rationed Manhattan escapists, droves of visiting defense workers hell-bent to spend their mill-gotten gains. The critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Slump Goes Boom | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...late in 1940, General Arnold phoned from Washington, saying: "Don, you're going to Tulsa to run a plant." "The hell I am," said Mr. Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passionate Engineer | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...hell you aren't. You're there now." From then on, the company did not expand. It exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passionate Engineer | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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