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...Mississippi also cut its income tax-from a base of 3% to 1½%. But very few States are expected to follow the example of New York and Mississippi. From now on, most States look for bigger budgets (new war expenses, such as civilian defense) and less income (from tire and auto rationing, shortages generally...
...balance ($1,473,800) of 5% Transandine Railway bonds, raising the total bonds repatriated from London since Nov. 1, 1941 to the tidy sum of ?4,100,000 ($16,523,000). By coolly outbidding the U.S., Argentina bought up the bulk of Ecuadorian rubber to help keep its tire factories running. And at week's end Madrid announced a new accord with Argentina for: 1) exchange of Spain's industrial goods, machinery and chemicals against Argentina's badly needed surplus foodstuffs, to the tune of some $46,610,000; 2) establishment of a joint Spanish-Argentine steamship...
...Tires. In Detroit, a sneak thief stole a wheel and tire from a minister's car, parked in front of a hotel. The minister went to get a policeman. When he got back to his car, another wheel and tire were gone...
...planes impudently took low-altitude photographs of the ruins. The photographs showed heavy damage all over the Renault plant. Especially hard-hit were the tank assembly shops (microscopic scrutiny of the pictures disclosed wrecked tanks inside), the main gas tank, the power station. The only unscathed sections were the tire-making shop, which was not in the target area, and the Diesel assembly shop...
Since the War broke, her life has quieted down. She began to tire of Hollywood, moved to Manhattan "for a change of air." She has started research for a book on the history of rubber. Her eldest son enlisted in the Army and was recently discharged, sick; her younger is still in a California agricultural college; her husband conducts a youth-orchestra in California, "for youths anywhere up to seventy." Her father is somewhere in Yugoslavia, and most of her old friends are either in concentration camps or in Poland or dead...