Word: costes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition federal tax laws require the payment of additional tax of 20 per cent on resale of a ticket above the original purchase price. State law prohibits the unlicensed "business" of selling rights of admission to public amusements at above 50 cents over the original cost...
Color-TV hearings before the Federal Communications Commission in Washington got down to figures last week. Radio Corporation of America's Elmer W. Engstrom. vice president in charge of research, cautiously estimated that color converters for present black & white receivers would cost from...
...like them. Some say that the birds are too jittery. Furthermore, hybrid eggs might not be preferred in every market: a light cream color, the eggs are too dark for New Yorkers who like white eggs and too light for Bostonians, who like them deep brown. And hybrid pullets cost 60? each, about twice the price of ordinary birds...
...expenses from their income, and later deduct 27½% of their annual gross from the well, as "depletion." Moreover, they could sell the well later and pay only a long-term capital gains (25%) tax on the profit. If the well was dry, they could write off the whole cost as a loss, thus cut down taxable income. Though many a hopeful had hit nothing but sand and salt, from Texas to Utah last week a handful of luckier stars had struck it rich...
Before the game, the varsity had an idea that, despite its graduation losses, it might be working well enough to give the Big Red a surprise. But a little too much inexperience and nervousness cost the Crimson three or four early goals when good scoring opportunities were missed...