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...billion increase in corporation taxes, upping the normal maximum rate from the present 47% to 55%. ¶A $3 billion "selective" increase in excise taxes on nonessential consumer goods and products that used materials in short supply. Suggested boosts: gasoline up 1½? a gallon, cigarettes up 3? a pack, whisky up $3 a gallon; taxes on radios, television sets, household appliances (now 10%) to be raised to 25%, on automobiles...
...this away, Minister Díaz, a onetime journalist, earned himself a mocking nickname from the press: Lomberto el Terrible. Thundered Lomberto, undeterred: "If the criminal elements and the women victims they live off don't get out, I'll cut off their light and water, pack their furniture off to a city warehouse and jail any stragglers. We'll show them no mercy." His eviction tactics worked. By week's end, all but a corporal's guard of the women and their flashily dressed chulos (pimps) had pulled out of the Barrio Colo...
...that wouldn't even buy a pack of gum," said...
...have to go down. Harvard is going to try to pull itself through the fretful days of mobilization without accelerating--President Conant's recent report indicates that any quickening of a student's program will come through the present machinery of two term. It means that a student can pack in more studies. It sounds like a far more sensible idea...
...their own facts, soon made the Post's editorial page the best-written and best-read in Washington. The Post supported Roosevelt in most of his foreign policies, but at home, fought vigorously against such New Deal aberrations as Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court. In 1936 and 1940 it supported Landon and Willkie...