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...Soak Everybody! Because the rich have been so drastically soaked for years in the United Kingdom (where many taxes are clearly confiscatory), Sir John Simon in effect made the keynote of his new Budget "Soak everybody...
Concession to Industry. Year ago the Budget of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Chamberlain, carried what afterward were considered clauses "tending to overtax the British munitions industry" or "soak the profiteers"-depending on one's point of view. Since nearly every country has laid plans to soak wartime profiteers, what proceeded to happen in London last week may be of wide significance. The new Simon Budget not only does not further soak any presumptive British profiteers but actually contains a clause enabling British industrialists to make such heavy charge-offs for "depreciation" that in effect industry received...
...castor oil, the sodium alkyl sulphates, and the sodium salts of sulphonated alkyl naphthalenes are "wetting agents." As explained last week in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review, wetting agents reduce the surface tension of water (which makes it contract into drops), thus enable it to penetrate and soak water-resistant substances. Wetting agents are now used in laundries, in dyeing and tanning, in medicine (increasing the efficacy of antiseptic solutions), in tooth paste, in metalworking...
President Roosevelt's soak-the-rich program is purely for political advantage, according to Professor Harley L. Lutz writing in the lead article in the current "Harvard Business Review...
Died. Donald Robert Perry Marquis, 59, columnist, humorist, playwright; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Forest Hills, N. Y. Author of Dreams and Dust, The Old Soak, The Dark Hours, he was best known for the adventures of mehitabel the amorous cat ("toujours gaie toujours gaie") and of archie, the cockroach which hopped from key to key of the author's typewriter, composing...