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...capital to Florida this season are surpassing anything previously known. The southern state can be reached by automobile, by rail, by boat.Yet this does not seem to mitigate the traffic jam on the southern railroads. Waiting two weeks for Pullman accommodations to Florida is said to be the normal experience. Freight conditions are even worse. All summer most of the Florida lines have been running on full winter schedule, and now, with the advent of the real season for visiting Florida, freight piles up despite every effort of the railroads...
...normal rounding out of the formal education of the intelligent citizen, in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and under adequate instructional inspiration and guidance; in preparation for effective participation as a responsible adult in the world in which he lives, in all ways as an intelligent active member in his community, his nation and the fellowship of nations. For going on with the task of self-understanding, self government, and self-development in the life that now is, and for the life that is to come. --John Palmer Gavit, "College...
...Normal taxes of 1½% on the first $4,000, 3% on the next $4,000 and 5% thereafter. (The Treasury proposed several different schedules of normal taxes very close to this; the present normal tax is graded 2%, 4% and 6% on the same amounts...
...Significance. The Ways and Means Committee, having decided that total tax reduction shall be $300,000,000, has also decided on cuts in surtaxes and normal taxes and increases in personal exemptions, which it is estimated will reduce revenue about $200,000,000. This reduction leaves a balance of $100,000,000 to be applied for reducing all other taxes, and this is not enough for a great deal of other reduction. It is not enough, for example, to allow the removal of taxes on automobiles. On the other hand, many observers expect the Committee to plan reductions which actually...
...Blazer's other (normal) daughter she was described as follows: "She was utterly helpless. Her body was terribly twisted. She couldn't walk, couldn't feed herself and was not able even to brush a fly from her face. The noises she made were animal-like and frightened strangers. The sight of her eating was so revolting that I couldn't stand it to watch...