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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 60% of its earnings, it would also have paid up to the maximum rate of 27% on its undistributed profits, another $120,487.80. Total: $269,327.80. Under the 1938 bill, corporations earning more than $25,000 will pay a flat tax of 19% minus 2½% of the amount it distributed in dividends. If Corporation B retains the same share of its profits, it will pay a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Law of 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...took martial law in two States and the best efforts of Secretary Ickes and the NRA to get the price up again. When NRA went out, oilmen relied on proration: no well in the East Texas field was allowed to run off more than a fixed amount (now an average of 20 barrels a day), and an Interstate Oil Compact, promoted by Oklahoma's Governor Ernest Marland, spread production control to six States-Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois. Carefully the price was built back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mr. Boggs's Ultimatum | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...problems which he isolates and presents are problems which must sooner or later be faced--the sooner the better. There is the problem of diet, of the minimum amount of food necessary to keep a family alive: too many go without this amount. There is the housing problem, and three is the inevitable problem of relief. Using anecdote, case histories, statistics, Mr. Hicks puts forward the case for the under-privileged with vivid realism. It is a superficial survey, but presented with irony and understatement it is a powerful stimulant to thought...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...think there ought to be a certain amount of culture in the land and that some of it probably ought to come from one Greater New York station. . . . Doesn't this kind of programming cost us jack we'll never get? You should hear what our treasurer says! If he got real nasty you know what we'd do? We'd blow a tickler in his face, that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: QRX | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...with money taken from surplus plus a $142,000,000 issue of common stock. But between 1932, when Myron Taylor became chairman of the board, and 1935 Big Steel lost $100,000,000. New plant construction & improvement took $123,000,000 in 1937, is expected to amount to $80,000,000 more in 1938. With steel production again on the skids, this added up to a pressing need for cash. Three months ago U. S. Steel borrowed $50,000,000 from Pittsburgh, Chicago and Manhattan banks. Last week, to retire the loans and get the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: In the Offing | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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