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...Hotel Brunswick hold seniority over him, but stand little chance of moving into Jarvis or Andover Courts. The University knows the arrival date of new staff members well in advance and if it feels bound to provide housing for essential faculty, they should be given apartments in a rent bracket other than that assigned to veterans...
...these states, husband & wife legally constitute a fiscal partnership, in which each owns half their combined income, even though the husband may earn all of it. By splitting their income and filing separate returns, they can pay taxes in a lower income bracket at a considerable saving. For example, a couple with two children and a net income of $25,000 pays a federal tax of $6,100 in New Mexico, a tax of $8,520 in New York...
Planting Cash. For many a farmer this prosperity was a problem as well as an unaccustomed pleasure. He had dollars galore and wanted no more-for the present. More dollars would merely put him in a higher income-tax bracket. Thus, the average farmer held back from market more wheat than usual (near Larned, one farmer kept his entire crop-about $175,000 worth at last week's prices-in storage). Normally the Kansas holdback, a form of insurance against a poor yield the next year, is about 30% of crop. This year elevators and farm bins are clogged...
...same time, the tournament tally sheets showed that the doubles bracket--with less total entries than the singles--was proceeding at a slower rate with only three teams having reached the second round...
...profits tax would end Dec. 31. All the excise and nuisance taxes were still there. Cigarets-not even figured in the cost of living-were still taxed at 21?: a pack, about $75 a year for the average smoker. But the immense popularity of income-tax cuts in every bracket was enough to give the Liberals a new hero...