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Show National Hens Summary U. S. Minerals The Interior Department has warned that the United States has less than twenty-five years supply of copper and petroleum under present conditions. To remain re-main self-sufficient in these minerals any longer a department depart-ment report said, the country would have to find improved means of working known sub-marginal sub-marginal deposits, which cannot can-not be developed profitably these days. Ample coal and iron ore supplies, foundation of the country's coun-try's industrial economy, were assured for "many decades. . Records While both the national income and the national turn-out of services ser-vices and finished goods rose to record heights during the first three months of this year, there is evidence that the boom is slackening, according to the Department De-partment of Commerce The "total output of final goods and services in the country at market mar-ket prices." went up to annual rate of $209,000,000,000. National Nation-al income reached a record total in the first quarter of this year at the annual rate of $180,500,-000,000, $180,500,-000,000, an increase of $3,000,-000,000 $3,000,-000,000 over the fourth quarter of 1946. Tax Ca&s The Bureau of Internal Revenue Reve-nue won two thirds of the cases in the Tax Court during 1945 and 1946 in which it charged fraud against income tax payers, according ac-cording to J. P. Wenchel, chief counsel of the Bureau. Out of twenty-one decisions rendered, fourteen were favorable to the Bureau and seven were against. Safety Campaign A campaign has been started by the Government to keep Americans from killing themselves them-selves with the thousands of war trophies brought back from foreign for-eign battlefields. Except for the application of a law requiring registration of machine guns and other automatic weapons, the campaign will be on a voluntary and educational basis. War sou-veniers sou-veniers with which Americans have been maimed or killed, ln- ! elude hand grenades, land mines and shells. |