| Show BUDGET asks billion plenty of headaches for hitler and hirohito were inherent in the epochal total war budget for the 1943 44 fiscal year which congress was scanning studiously largest budget in world history the total would devote 00 to war activities the remainder to domestic government expense and interest on the national debt which by july 1944 would reach plenty of wrinkles furrowed the brows of fiscal experts as they contemplated tem plated the stupendous budget the mere act of spending such sums meant bringing nearer the specter of inflation with more money jingling in american pockets because of war boosted income and fewer goods to buy because of necessary war rationing the nation faced a supreme economic test antidote to the inflation threat was president Roosevel ts dual purpose recommendation dyphon off 16 in new taxes or forced savings from national income add this to the present moo tax bill and thus provide which would pay about abo ut half the war costs and bs be a potent checkmate to inflation and to enable wage earners to meet the steadily mounting bill moves had been speeded to provide pay as you go machinery for collecting the new levies RUSSIA decision at military strategists eyed key communications city at the mouth of the don river here they felt history would be written in weeks to come that would determine whether hillers Hit lers russian adventure would be a complete rout or merely disaster deferred toward converged the retreating nazi armies from the s south 0 uth east and north toward too moved the advancing russian armies m ies whose successful winter offensives had badly upset nazi tactical calculations here the struggle would reach decisive stages continued gains of the russians in the caucasus south of gains which carried them beyond the strategic rail city of Georgiev georgievska sk in incredibly short periods suggested to some observers that the german armies were retiring with virtually no resistance to the rot area these observers pointed out that at the nazis might make as bitterly stubborn a resistance as the reds had at stalingrad Stal ingrad northwest on the volga SUPREME COURT sets record george washington had a appointed the original six members of the supreme court and filled seven vacancies during his two terms Frank franklin lill D roosevelt set a record for ta the le number named by one president dent since time when he selected judge wiley B rutledge as his eighth appointee to the tribunal As the court is now con constituted buted owen J roberts appointed by president hoover is the only justice on the court not named by roosevelt |
