Deductions for Income Tax Extended by Treasury Guidance
Tax laws allow many deductions to reduce 1942 tax bills. Instructions cover license fees, charitable gifts to USO Red Cross and churches, interest on loans, and taxes paid. Vehicle and transportation taxes, advertising, union dues, and farm expenses may be deducted with limits, including medical costs above 5 percent of income.
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Treasury
Alfred Singler
Union
Uncle Sam
Congress
United States
USO
Army and Navy Relief
Red Cross
Community Chests
Boy Scouts
Voters Leagues
Bar Association
Medical Association
Prohibition Association
Record Income Report for United States in 1942
National income rose to about 114 billion dollars in 1942 as factories ran at high capacity and farmers produced record crops. Farm income reached 16 billion, wages and salaries totaled 79 billion, and about 58 million people were gainfully employed.
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United States
Department of Commerce
Department of Agriculture
WAAC auxiliary Olivia Eubanks Leads Family in Service
Olivia Eubanks of the Second WAAC training center has 300 relatives in service, the largest family contingent among WAACs. Her husband, Technical Sergeant Sidney J. Eubanks, serves overseas in the signal corps and is chief among those in her view.
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Olivia Eubanks
WAAC
Eubanks
Sidney J. Eubanks
Signal Corps
Fighters Fight Afoot in Luzon Amid Plane Shortage
The 27th bombardment group in the Philippines faced no planes yet operated pistols rifles and improvised crews in three old transports. They escaped to Australia in a doomed flight and later fought with A-20s in New Guinea before succumbing to aircraft shortages and heavy losses.
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Washington
Philippines
Neilson Field
Australia
Army Air Forces
War Department
James B. McAfee
Charlotte, N. C
Barksdale Field
Manila
Nichols Field
Fort McKinley
Darwin
Brisbane
Luzon
Mindanao
Java
Owen Stanley
New Guinea
Salamaua
Buna
Gasmata
Tojo
Hogs Outwit Farmer in Electrified Fence Quandary
In Earhartn Iowa farmer Jim Brown struggles with hogs evading an intermittent electric fence. The hogs learn the transformer click and crowd under the fence when power is off. Brown considers a psychologist to outwit the herd though a harsher system could spook the pigs.
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Earlham
Iowa
Jim Brown
Brown
Graduate Milkers Find Jobs Run Dry
Nineteen persons including one woman who completed a month long milking course in Los Angeles were graduated recently but found no jobs due to nationwide demand. They retain their diplomas despite the scarce openings.
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Los Angeles
The Spirit at Guadalcanal War Poem and Notes
A wartime column riffs on Guadalcanal courage with verses about fallen lads and a humanizing slice of home life. It includes a brief comic quickie from Private Purkey and a note on war transport buses, tying battlefield grit to daily homefront scenes.
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Guadalcanal
Private Purkey
Hitler
Goering
Russia
Oscar
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Office of War Transportation
War and Navy Departments
Phooey
Vandegrift
Halsey
MacArthur
Patch
Gilholley’s Grove
Midwest
Western Land, Cattle & Loan Co., Inc
Brandeis Theatre
Omaha
Nebr
Kent Blades
Marines
Coast
Prince Albert
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Adv
Pliny, the Elder
King Features
All
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
WNU
Doan
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