Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gasoline-tax receipts for road building, but devotes them to miscellaneous purposes. The Mississippi State tax is 6? per gallon, although most State taxes are only 3 ?or 4? per gallon. On top of that there is a Federal tax of 1? per gallon, making a total direct tax on gasoline sold in Hancock County of 10? or about 100% of its wholesale price. To add insult to injury Mississippi imposes a State sales tax which does not exempt the already heavily taxed gasoline, as is the practice in almost all the States having sales taxes...
...addition to those direct taxes on gasoline in Mississippi, distributors must pay license fees up to $250, depending upon the size of their storage tanks, and retail gasoline dealers pay license fees up to $15 annually for each pump, the amount depending upon the size of the municipality...
...means reluctant was the Dominion to surrender control of the Yukon, which has cost it nearly eleven million dollars for its development with almost no direct return to Ottawa. Cheerfully the Government consented to make an annual grant to British Columbia of $125,000 for five years to help meet the expense of taking over...
...first of the letter, after stating that "tae President and Fellows find themselves unable to send a delegate," Greene stressed "the contributions of your great teachers during the past centuries." He also pointed out the "direct benefits which American scholars have gained as their personal disciples...
...Direct Benefits...