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Said the Economist, assuming that the latter would be the case: "Hard facts, not the morals of the case or the goodness or badness of the Germans, are the compelling reasons why, in a settlement with Germany, it is absolutely necessary to go the way of moderation. It is only the moderate that will be enforced-not now, but in the 15 or 20 years' time when the fat and lazy habits of peacetime have returned...
...postwar world. To wit: Will the returning G.I. be able to maintain the same balance of power in his home that he enjoyed in the halcyon days, or will the female of the species assert herself and declare the "old order" relegated to the limbo of nostalgic memories? . . . Upon settlement of this question rests the stability of the state and the determination of whether G.I. Joe is to enjoy the freedoms he fought for. (PVT.) ED G. LANCASTER Camp Claiborne...
...loosely-phrased document offering several broad formulas for arriving at a new tax base. Example: if, during one of the four tax-base years, a corporation's profits were below normal, it could compute a new average tax base for four normal years. Then Congress dumped the actual settlement of cases into the laps of Internal Revenue agents...
...Indians migrated so freely that sometimes when the Helmericks stopped at what the map marked as a large settlement they found only a few bare poles...
Divorced. Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, auto scion; by Martha ("Mickey") Devine Dodge, 31, ex-Vanities girl; after, four years of married high life; in Reno. The settlement (according to her attorney): "closer to a million than $500,000." This brought Dodge's total settlements, after three marriages, reputedly close to three million...