Word: addi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aforementioned performers could carry a Grade B musical show by themselves. What puts The Show Is On definitely in the Grade A class is the addi tion of another pair of entertainers, Reginald Gardiner and Beatrice Lillie...
Philo Taylor Farnsworth, 30, failed ten years ago as a radio repairman. To George Everson, well-to-do San Francisco bachelor, he submitted his scheme for electronic television, no blueprints. When radio engineers assured Mr. Everson that the Farnsworth idea seemed feasible, he put up money for experiments, got addi tional backing from officials of San Fran cisco's Crocker First National Bank. Hard-working young Farnsworth twice threw equipment worth $25,000 out the window, started over again. Finally successful demonstrations were made at Phila delphia's Franklin Institute. Philco Radio &; Television Corp. bought U. S. rights...
...dividends on its chewing gum business- one payable in each of the next four months-at the extraordinary rate of 26 30/95? per share. Not so complicated as it looks, the new rate will result in stockholders getting a monthly dividend of 25? per share as formerly. The odd addi- tion merely represents the 5% tax on dividends collected at source under the new tax law. Thus the Wrigley Co. simplified the problem of figuring out shareholders' dividends, absorbed the tax itself, set a precedent...
...enactment of the gaming statute crowded Reno's palaces of chance with increased patronage, although no addi tional halls were opened. The new law merely makes legal what has gone on 24 hours daily for years. The famed Bank Club, however, was preparing to knock out a wall to provide larger quarters for the gamesters. Each game was taxed $50 a month, 50%, of which will go to the city in which it is collected, the remainder split between county and State. Slot machines were licensed at $10 a month. Although the State passed an antigambling law in 1910. since...