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...startling contrast to America's depreciation allowances are the fast tax write-off rates in booming Western Europe. While the U.S. looks upon depreciation allowances as one more strand in its tax-collecting net, foreign governments use them to spur business growth...
...Bogota meeting, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, author of Brazil's Operation Pan American, which asks $10 billion in 20 years of aid to the region's economy, says that the U.S. proposal is "very kind, very generous," but it is only "a short-term palliative, made on the spur of the moment under the pressure of the Cuban crisis...
...words for utensils, picked a "mother" and "father" to police manners at each table. Instead of wasting the legally required rest period, she said: "Now we are pigeons, and we make a little nest on the desk with our arms." Then she played hi-fi classical records, hoping to spur "appreciation for music throughout later life...
...often impugned by surviving relatives," Palestra enjoined Italian priests to write their bequests with care, suggested that wills be drawn early in life ("even young priests have some property") and published lawyerproof samples. The magazine also cautioned priests against leaving annuities to female servants, a practice that could spur "scandalous" interpretations. But chances are that most Italian clerics, indebted to their families for their education, will ignore Palestra & Co., continue to leave to their families whatever they can save from their state-supplied $50-a-month stipend...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory moved to cut domestic consumption last April by imposing stiff restrictions on installment buying. He followed through last month by raising the bank rate to an anti-inflationary 6%. And Prime Minister Harold Macmillan began a series of pep talks designed to spur sales abroad. "We have always been merchant adventurers," he told a London audience of 400 top businessmen last week. "That is our tradition. I urge you to recruit your fellows into those noble ranks." He noted that "our German friends have coined a word, Exportfreudigkeit, or roughly 'export...