Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress is about to consider the Patman Chain Store Tax bill, which would exterminate the big chains. Chief reason the chains fear the bill may become law is that no less than 22 States have already imposed chain taxes-and in a far-reaching decision, Louisiana's was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. Last week, chain store men found solace in Pennsylvania, whose graduated tax ranging up to $500 per store has been one of the stiffest yet imposed. Because Pennsylvania's Constitution requires that all taxes must be uniform, Dauphin County Court declared it invalid...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. has been trying to devise an economical flotation method for separating impurities such as shale and slate from low-grade anthracite coal. For "parting liquids," they needed mixtures of controllable specific gravity up to three times that of water. Pentachlorethane and tetrabromethane filled this bill-after the Du Pont men worked out a way to use them over & over again cheaply...
...campaign for election to the Brookline School Committee with a bang, Paul Korins '41 plans to give a "fireside chat" over the air Friday or Saturday. He has already distributed 9,000 pamphlets, printed tire covers and window stickers, sent personal cards to Brookline friends, and plastered bill boards of he town with "Elect Kerins for School Committee...
Showing his usual god brand of wrestling, Bill Daughaday won from his man, Lowry Stephenson with another decision. Ted Schoenberg, t 136, lost his stride once more as he broke his winning streak to lose to Norman Bond on a decision, and Al Richter lost on a decision...
WASHINGTON--Long-delayed isolationist attacks on President Roosevelt's foreign policy may begin tomorrow when the Military Expansion Bill, increasing Army Air Corps strength to 6000 planes reaches the Senate floor for debate...