(3 of 10)
1. Husbands and wives could split their combined income, file separate returns.
2. Homesteads would be exempt from local real-estate taxes.
3. State income taxes might be deducted from federal returns.
4. Farm land taxes would be lowered.
5. Personal property taxes would be abolished.
15. Although a record estimated 36 million head of cattle were slaughtered last year, a dark threat hangs over the U.S. meat supply:
1. Sky-high retail prices.
2. Increased black market activity.
3. Invasion of the foot & mouth disease from Mexico.
4. Cattle rustlers.
5. A plan to export all our beef to Russia.
16. Bernard Baruch's testimony on the ERP before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended all but one of the following:
1. Stand ready for five years to buy all the world's nonperishable materials which cannot find markets elsewhere.
2. Promise to go to war to protect Europe from aggression.
3. Reduce taxes at once.
4. Stabilize wages.
5. Reduce farm prices and guarantee them for 3 years.
17. Because of our large resources of it, Standard Oil experts are placing their major long-range bet on gasoline synthesized from:
1. Soybeans. 4. Uranium.
2. Coal. 5. Wood.
3. Goldenrod.
LABOR
18. With the two words "We disaffiliate" John L. Lewis severed his mine workers' connection with the:
1. A.F.L. 2. C.I.O.
3. N.A.M.
4. National Labor Relations Board.
5. Communist Party of America.
19. One of the strongest left-wing groups in labor was smashed last fall when elections gave control of the auto workers' union to a majority headed by:
1. James Carey. 4. Walter Reuther.
2. Roland Thomas. 5. Michael Quill
3. Joseph Curran.
20. The A.F.L. convention at San Francisco abolished 13 vice presidencies to avoid the Taft-Hartley act requirement that all union officers:
1. Be citizens of the U.S.
2. Submit to a loyalty check by the F.B.I.
3. Swear that they are not Communists.
4. Be legally and financially responsible for strike damages.
5. Be elected by secret ballot.
21. In addition to a demonstration of President Phil Murray's complete control, the C.I.O. convention in Boston was highlighted with a speech by:
1. Harry Truman. 4. George Marshall.
2. John L. Lewis. 5. Tom Dewey.
3. Bob Hope.
22. Until James Caesar Petrillo gets the Taft-Hartley act changed as he wants it, the only ones who receive music royalties are:
1. The recording firms.
2. The disc jockeys.
3. The musicians who perform it.
4. The radio stations.
5. The copyright owners.
Politics
23. The union leader who came out strongly for President Truman's reelection, after bellowing a year earlier that "You can't make a President of a ribbon clerk," was:
1. Lewis of the miners.
2. Green of the A.F.L.
3. Whitney of the railroad trainmen.
4. Beck, of the teamsters.
5. Bridges of the longshoremen.
24. While among those who might have supported Henry Wallace's third-party candidacy, only one of the following remained at year's end: