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...employer. Other proposals suggested by various White House advisers might raise the tax to as much as 15% or 20%, might increase the employe's load more than the employer's. With this burden added to all his other taxes (see p. 16), the worker would have precious little money left to fritter away...
...smile is precious and difficult to preserve in all wars, but especially difficult in this war in the East...
Czecrio-Slovalda, tucked away in the core of Hitler's Empire, is probably the tightest-sealed source of continental news. For months fires, slowdowns, mismanagement and active destruction have cost the Nazis precious marks, materials and time. Railway sabotage has cost them lives...
...them, no matter what agreements are signed. Much of Russia's manganese is mined in Transcaucasia, was formerly shipped to the U.S. through the Mediterranean. Now it would have to be shipped 7,766 miles overland to Vladivostok, thence across the Pacific (where shipping space is more precious than platinum), or around Africa via Baku, Iran and the Persian Gulf. Not an ounce of Russian manganese has arrived in the U.S. since last December...
...understanding or grim intent. He listened carefully to the defense chiefs delivering excellently-phrased appeals to the U.S. to arouse, make sacrifices, speed up. This looked very good in the rotogravures, but Mr. Ickes then watched the same orators on their return to Washington, saw them wasting month after precious month...