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...Luxury Lovers. Last week's action did peel off (as of July 1) the top layer of taxes on luxury goods, amusements, communications and railway berths -taxes which have cost U.S. citizens an annual $1.2 billion since they were slapped on by the 1943 wartime Revenue Act. Chiefly this was a New Year's present to luxury-loving Americans...
...housewife it didn't mean much. The tax on electric light bulbs was cut from 20% to 5%; on local telephone calls, from 15% to 10%; on railway and plane tickets, from 15% to 10%. But existing federal taxes, not touched by last week's action, would still add 7 to the cost of a pack of cigarets, 10% to the cost of radios, phonographs, electric appliances...
When a diplomat once asked Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin what his foreign policy really was, Bevin replied: "To go down to Victoria Station, get a railway ticket and go where the hell I like without a passport or anything else...
...bomb was placed in the central railway station. Grenades were thrown at the heavily guarded Mustashfa police station...
Only opportunities for home going vacationers to find room in the over-crowded holiday transportation facilities are bus tickets, Northeast Airlines plane seats, and railway coach accomodations, key transportation officials announced yesterday...