Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statisticians had not got around to a breakdown of salaries by industries, had made only a partial one in the matter of taxation. Oil companies' taxes amounted to 120% of payrolls, 25% of sales, 676% of dividends. Next came public utilities with taxes equal to 59% of payrolls, 16% of sales, 90% of dividends. Urged NAM: "Let the American people turn the same spotlight of public attention on taxes that has been turned on executive salaries...
...does, he addressed visitors in Latin, making mistakes which could be attributed only to fatigue. According to Rome Correspondent Sonia Tomara of the New York Herald Tribune, release of the papal encyclical on the cinema, longest ever issued to the U. S. hierarchy, was hastened last week before a breakdown of the Pope's health could forestall...
...their 1934 and 1935 position of runner-up to the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees on July 4 were ten full games ahead of them and, to all appearances, pennant winners. The Detroit Tigers, handicapped by the illness of their catcher-manager. Mickey Cochrane. who had a nervous breakdown when his team failed to hit its stride at the season's start, were a bare percentage fraction ahead of the Washington Senators...
Graduated from a genteel ladies' seminary at 16, married at 18, Dorothy Dix was thrown on her own resources by an invalid husband. Fear of the poorhouse produced a nervous breakdown, to recover from which friends sent her to balmy Bay St. Louis, Miss. There Mrs. Gilmer met Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Nicholson, owner of the Picayune, to whom she showed a dialect piece called How Chloe Saved the Silver. It so impressed Mrs. Nicholson that she bought it for $3, told Editor Burbank to hire the author...
...elder McGuire sold Outdoor Life, retired to California. Harry McGuire went to Europe, soon returned to edit Outdoor Life for its new owners at tiny Mt. Morris, Ill., 100 mi. west of Chicago. There he found time to contract and recover from a nervous breakdown, lay out a private polo field, break his nose in an automobile smash-up and become familiar with many of the nation's literary and social lights, who in turn came to regard kinetic, fun-loving Harry McGuire as something of a character himself...