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Even under the stiff new tax law, U.S. Federal income taxes are still far behind Britain's. For a single person, the U.S. tax starts next year at 10% on net income over $750, runs to a peak of 81% on net income over $5,000,000. The British tax begins at 6% on earned income over $480, rises sharply, virtually confiscates all income over $20,000 (97½%). A U.S. married couple without dependents, earning $4,000 a year, will pay only $249 Federal income tax. In Britain they would...
...long, with a tower which will rise 308 feet; when completed, it will be second in size only to St. Peter's huge basilica in Rome. Nazi bombs have shattered some of its stained glass and scarred its walls, but have left mainly intact this massive red sandstone peak to St. James's Mount above the River Mersey...
...barn to the squeak of a country fiddle, stamping, and the laughter of pretty girls. He thought of long bicycle rides over country roads speckled with red and yellow leaves, and the tang of wood-smoke in the wind. And then there was the sharp outline of a snowy peak against the blue winter sky, the green of pines along the Sherburne trail, and the bright flash of skiers as they hissed through the new powder snow. And then when spring came there was canoeing down the swollen New England rivers, through the rushing white water of the spring freshets...
...point to an increase in both the number of radio listeners and in the amount of time they spend at their sets. Moreover, reliable trade estimates made in January of this year revealed that there were 50,100,000 radio sets in operation in this country in an alltime peak of receiver ownership...
Esquire ("More Smileage") is no such bonanza as it was in 1937 (just before the Smarts sold big blocks of stock) when it reached an average 575,519 monthly circulation peak and made $807,865 net. But it still pays a tidy profit. From last year's $221,431 it climbed to $302,060 in 1941 (year ending March...