FISCAL: Nightmare Round the Corner

Many a U. S. taxpayer put his tax return in the mail last week, then rushed to the nearest bar to get a jolt of what P. G. Wodehouse has called "the stuff that restores the tissues." Taxes were steep; some citizens were paying the highest taxes in U. S. history, and to most of them it felt like it. But their morning newspapers assured them, in Washington dispatches that read as if they had been written by men who had also suffered deeply, that this was only the beginning.

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