Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House's tax bill pressed so hard on security trades that there was wild talk last week that the New York Stock Exchange would emigrate to Canada. The traders' major grievance was against a ¼% tax on all stock sales to give the Treasury $70,000,000 in extra revenue. The levy is to be not less than 4¢ per share and also applies to stock borrowings. A trader today selling 100 shares of $100 stock pays the U. S. $2, the State $4 and a clearing fee of $1.50? a total of $7.50. The same transaction under...
...would the House tax bill raise that amount? There was some doubt about it last week. The Ways & Means Committee estimated that its measure would produce $1,032,400,000 extra cash; reductions in budgeted expenditures for 1933 were figured at another $200,000,000 and minor postal rate increases at $30,500,000. Thus by increasing receipts and cutting expenditures the Treasury would receive a total of $1,262,900,000 more than it now is getting, or $21,900,000 above Budget-balancing requirements...
White has been active in the work of the Association as chairman of the Foreign Student Committee, one of the most important branches of Brooks House, as well as in other extra-curricular activities. Tucker headed the Speaker's Committee during the past year and was prominent in lacrosse. Neff has been associated with the work of the Social Service Committee...
...foreign debt consists merely of $10,000,000 which we borrowed from the United States. That represents only about 40% of one annual budget. Besides, we have 62 years in which to pay it and the Hoover moratorium gave us an extra year...
...right smart unhandy to be po'," and live in a mountain cabin on $575 a year, with a woman and six children to keep-and maybe be neighborly and take in a half-dozen extra ones when their parents die. In the three-room cabin there is no heat but from the fireplace, no window, no plumbing. The hill woman is much in childbirth. After six or eight children she may die. The mountaineer takes a second woman, perhaps a third. What becomes of the many young ones, whose blood is of the purest...