Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed, 173-to-0, the "Plug the Tax-Loophole" Bill, which would place a 65% to 75% levy on personal holding companies, including yachts and racing stables and foreign holding companies; require officers and directors of foreign holding companies to file returns every month; apply regular surtax levies instead of a flat 10% to nonresident aliens' income from this country, on incomes exceeding $21,600. Additional revenue expected: 50 to 100 millions...
Thumbing their way through the labyrinth of the decision, the companies wailed that the conclusions were "grossly unfair and misleading," asserted the whole document is based on "erroneous information," indicated their intention to file an appeal to Mexico's National Labor Board...
...accountants, machinists, painters, shoemakers, tailors. Testified deaf President Kenner: "As an employer, for the past 20 years, [I have] had occasion to utilize the services of hearing and deaf persons and found the latter equally satisfactory." He announced that the Federal Government will hire deaf operators of office machines, file clerks, copyists, typists...
...file at the Department of Justice in Washington are the fingerprints, photographs, aliases and nicknames of 7,052,061 U. S. malefactors. Surest of these four keys to the identity of criminals are fingerprints which differ even in identical twins, but even fingerprints are not foolproof. The late John Dillinger had a plastic surgeon mutilate his fingertips with acid but failed to obliterate their prints because the job was poorly done (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The finger prints of another recent murderer, John Hamilton, proved useless to police who found his body a year after his death. Identification of Hamilton...
...gold ingots, each weighing 50 lb., neatly stacked against the wall. Nearby lay equipment for panning gold and relics of the days of the Spanish conquistadors. Stumbling along the shaft, Van Steck came upon 45 additional bars, refused to share them with his partners, hurried to the settlement to file a claim, leaving native pack drivers on guard. The 80 bars, each stamped with the seal of the Spanish royal crown, are valued at $1,120,000. Dazzled by so much wealth, Hill intrigued with the native drivers, fired at Van Steck as he returned from the settlement, missed, fled...