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...Produce 125,000,000,000 pounds of milk - an 11% hike from 1941's anticipated record production of 112,000,000,000 pounds...
Ambition. In Spartanburg, S.C., a Venezuelan Boy Scout neared the end of an 18,000-mile hike, said he planned to take a plane home...
...arms through the air. Tradition likes to remember the time over-exuberance ended him up flat on the floor. The wandering begins to assume the likeness of a relay-race; a favorite heating pipe near the window must be tagged before the return to the desk. But the hike may be interrupted by a noisy sneezing attack requiring a five to ten minute clean up job, accompanied by an incoherent lecture muffled by his towel-sized handkerchief. Invariably there is a periodical clothes-adjusting campaign, ranging from shoe lacing to shirt buttoning. The closing five minutes bring a cessation...
...hands of Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, House Ways and Means Committee chief. Mr. Doughton, hoary expert at turnip-bleeding, said curtly that he thought the turnips could take it. To Mr. Doughton this week, from Henry Morgenthau, came the Treasury's recommendations. They included a hike in the basic income-tax rate of 2.2 to 6.6 per cent, lower exemptions, surtaxes on all incomes over...
...Treasury hirelings have been hard at work on defense financing schemes for months. Last week a few details of what will be the biggest money drive in history leaked out. With one hand, the Treasury will hike taxes again (see p. 16). With the other, it will sell bonds. Bonds have long been the Treasury's chief method of deficit financing. But it figures that corporations, which used to buy Government bonds, now need their excess funds for defense expansion. Treasury issues which used to be oversubscribed 10-14 times now are oversubscribed only 2-4 times...