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...plan enough to call it their own prodigy, push it through the legislative mill, and take the credit. Looking back over the record of the Treasury's failures on Capitol Hill, it looks like easy money on Congress, a seat in the bleachers for Mr. Ruml, and a sharp jolt to the taxpayer who has been floating around in the optimistic misconception that the switch to pay-as-you-go will mean no taxes this year. In his interests, we hope the smoke settles soon...
...January-Tommy Manville will remarry or get a divorce or something. March-Millions of Americans who always thought the income tax was something for the rich to worry about will be brought up with a jolt. April-The first robin will be reported in all New England States. The first baseball holdouts will be reported in all others. May-There will be a new ration card. June-[Ex]Senator Prentiss Brown will wonder why he ever took Henderson's job. November-Hitler will proclaim all the Russian armies annihilated...
...ship got the works. The first attack came from on top. Sir, those boys were good. Our .50 calibers were hosing tracers into them and there was a helluva din. First thing I felt was an awful jolt on the control column. One of those German boys had plunked two cannon shells into the elevators and punched holes in the fabric big enough for a man to jump through. From then on the captain and I had to brace our feet against the column. That old ship wanted only to climb but we wanted to get down as fast...
...Coral Sea and at Midway may have been "accurate in themselves, but that the Japs' total carrier strength had been underestimated. Even the statement by Expert Hanson W. Baldwin (see p. 67) that the Haruna probably had not been sunk was no longer much of a jolt. Laymen could turn a clearer eye upon tabulations indicating that the Japs, to date, had lost perhaps a third of their known (and probably underestimated) cruiser strength, nearly one-third of their destroyers, six of their carriers, some 75 warships, while the U.S. had lost only 58 in the Pacific. Present Pacific...
...second is as unlikely as Douglas MacArthur caught off Australia. Bill Dickey's throwing into center field is as impossible as a Flying Fortress missing its mark. Those things just don't happen. But Gordon was tagged out, and Dickey did make a bad toss. If that doesn't jolt our complacency, nothing will...