Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institutions, rentals for quarters abandoned piled up. The mergers also forced Central Republic itself to seek larger space which today is not required. It is estimated that the annual rentals now total $1,250,000. Observers pointed out that perhaps liquidation is the only way to escape this staggering burden...
...Grocers. "Acker, Merrall & Condit has for a long time catered only to the wealthier people and today they are few enough, so that, combined with the additional burden of high rentals which landlords would not reduce . . . receivership was the only logical step. . . ." Thus trouble came last week to a fancy grocery that had purveyed rich & rare foodstuffs to Manhattan's best tables for 112 years. A. M. & C.'s small, lacquered delivery wagons and well-turned out horses were a familiar sight in pre-War Manhattan. Until Prohibition smart households bought much of their whiskey, gin, ales, wines...
...washing diapers, getting up in the night, tending colic, meeting in a city flat the little savages' requirements of safe outdoor activity and companionship, stewing soups and milks, acting as household drudges, and either abstaining from the life of the outer world entirely or else staggering under the double burden of a very inferior position outside and work in the home as well...
First, such action will relieve the taxation burden, thereby releasing purchasing power, and start the wheels of industry to humming. Second, then Liberty Bond owners, instead of coupon-clipping, will help make the wheels hum faster. Third, the Liberty Bond owners are heavy taxpayers. A cancellation of Government obligations would lighten their tax burdens...
...Senator McKellar so excited about these taxpayers? In 1931 his State contributed one-half of one percent of the Federal income tax. Obviously the interests of Tennessee in world recovery far surpass her interest in Federal taxes. When one remembers that a world recovery would instantly reduce the burden of taxes, it is really hard to see what Senator McKellar thinks he is doing for his own constituents or for anyone else...