Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aboard S. S. Exilonia At Sea, May 2 --Samuel Insull will be "flat broke" when he arrives in New York next week to face fraud charges growing out of the collapse of his utilities empire...
...Choice-First choice before the conferees was in regard to personal income taxes. Both bills have a flat 4% normal tax without the jump to 8% that exists under the present law, but surtaxes are raised to compensate for this reduction. House surtaxes run from 4% to 59%; Senate surtaxes from 5% to 59%. But the House bill allows a new deduction of 10% of the normal tax on earned income up to $8,000 whereas the Senate bill allows the same deduction on earned income up to $20,000. The net result of these changes would be to increase...
...difference to the taxpayer, however, is that the Senate bill has an amendment sponsored by Senator Couzens which will make every one pay a flat 10% extra on his total income tax for next year. That would cost taxpayers $55,000,000 in 1935. Including Mr. Couzens' 10% extra tax, the net effect of the Senate bill would be to decrease payments a trifle for married men with earned incomes under $9,000 and increase taxes substantially on incomes above that figure, whereas under the House bill the benefit of a slight reduction would extend to married men with...
...Smahl began to keep a record of his telephone calls. The first month, he counted 45. His bill charged him for 67, one more than his flat-rate allowance. Dr. Smahl complained. The telephone company at first cut his rate for extra calls in half. As officials became more familiar with Dr. Smahl's triangular face, beady eyes and beak nose, they grew less sympathetic...
...hunt was on in Chicago last week for a frying-pan that would sound A flat, a soup plate that would give G sharp, a tea cup in B. Four erratic-looking men went from one Loop store to another, producing pitch-pipes, whacking on merchandise with wooden spoons. Clerks tried to interest them in bargains. Customers tittered and asked bewildered floorwalkers what it was all about. But the four strange shoppers went on about their business. They were assembling a kitchen orchestra for part of the thank-you concert that the Chicago Symphony was giving the patrons...