Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation of the above report it was pointed out by the Treasurer that although the $100 item for a savings account was carried as an expense it might legitimately be considered an asset, and that therefore the total expenses to date are $3831.90 as compared with expenses of approximately $3920 at the same time last year. Also the ordin- ary commercial bank account stood at approximately $2700 at this time last year, compared with...
...Percentage Table for calculating the proportion of a gain or loss to be used for tax purposes would be graduated by months instead of years. Thus, at present, a capital gain on an asset held less than a year is 100% taxable income, but of a capital gain on an asset held for a year and a day only 80% is taxable income. So people are encouraged to hold securities until the next bracket is reached. The new table would step down 2% per month from 13 months to 25 months, after that at 1% so that a capital gain...
President Conant mentioned building. He expressed for graduates in Cambridge, which would correspond to the upperclass Houses, might prove a great step forward in giving to graduate students the same compactness which is at present an outstanding asset of the College. He evidently envisions some such buildings in the future, maybe soon, maybe not. Anyhow, soon or late, he admits that something must be done to relieve the unsatisfactory housing conditions of the graduate schools...
...Wistar Institute is an invaluable asset to U. S. biology. And last week there occurred something which the Institute considered the most noteworthy event in its history since Soapmaker Samuel Fels gave $50,000 to its rat colony. The nourishing estate of the Institute is mainly due to its founder, Isaac Jones Wistar, a hard-bitten adventurer in his youth, a brigadier-general in the Civil War, a forthright and crusty capitalist in his old age. One of the general's great uncles, famed Anatomist Caspar Wistar* of the University of Pennsylvania, had left an anatomical collection. This...
Second Honeymoon (Twentieth Century-Fox). Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in an arch new episode whose chief asset is merry-eyed, brunette newcomer Marjorie Weaver. Old stuff: Tyrone in the lockup...