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Died. Sylvester Zeffarino Poli, 77, showman, sculptor, artist, founder of the chain of 18 Poli theatres in New England; of pneumonia; in Woodmont, Conn...
Signed by Pennsylvania's Governor George Earle in Harrisburg last week was another chain-store tax bill. It was not of the Louisiana variety, in which the graduated levy is calculated not on the number of stores within the State but on the total number of units in the system (TIME, May 31). But the Pennsylvania tax will be even harder on the chains than the Louisiana levy, because Pennsylvania is a more important chain-store State. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., for instance, has 2,100 stores in Pennsylvania, only 106 in Louisiana. And the Pennsylvania tax rises...
Fling a necklace of rough-cut emeralds on a blue tablecloth and you have what Bermuda looks like from an airplane winging southeast from the U. S. 10,000 ft. above the Atlantic. Only 22 miles long, the looped chain of low coral isles seems a tiny target to hit from Manhattan 783 miles away. But at 10,000 ft. a pilot can see 50 miles on a clear day and so can still spot his goal even if he misses 'it by that great a navigational error. Last week, as a Pan American Airways plane soared casually down...
Allied's third big objective, outlined at the convention, is to strike at the "big boys" through legislation to tax theatre chains just as chain groceries are now taxed in Louisiana (TIME, May 31). A model tax bill was presented basing the tax on the number of seats. Above 500 the tax would be 5? a seat, above 1,000 10? a seat, etc., etc. If adopted, such legislation would hurt many members of the Allied States Association,, but, said Al Steffes last week, "big independent chains should be curbed...
...supermarket is even more of a menace to the little independent than the chain, for the supermarket can undersell them both (TIME, May 24). Moreover the supermarket, doing on the average ten times as much business as a single chain store unit, counts as only one store for taxation purposes. But what chain-store men would prefer to either the supermarket or the voluntary chain would be to persuade the public that anti-chain store legislation amounts to subsidizing inefficient or outmoded independent retailers at the consumer's expense...