Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch told the Byrnes Committee that the chief cause of the country's current economic ills was the Administration's policies-urged modification of the levies on 1) undistributed profits and 2) capital gains. Most sensational item in the report last week was a flat statement to the effect that the best way to diminish unemployment was to repeal the first and modify the second...
...levies on capital gains by taxing all of such gains only when made by the sale of assets held less than 13 months, 40% of gains made by selling assets held longer than five years. The Revenue Bill passed by the Senate last month called for: 1) a flat 18% on all corporate profits; 2) further modification of capital gains taxes by lowering not the amount of taxable gains but the tax rate on capital gains-from a maximum of 79% on short-term gains to 15% on gains made over a term longer than 18 months. The conference bill...
...Chicago's International Amphitheatre last week, with 512 performers, 400 horses, 160,000 square feet of canvas, Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World made its bow. In Chicago the show seemed good but raw, mingled surefire thrills with extravaganza that fell flat. Flattest of all fell McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with...
...killing undistributed profits tax entirely, substituting a flat 18% levy on all corporate income, with exemptions for corporations earning less than $25,000; 2) killing the House's complex capital gains tax, substituting a flat 15% on capital gains arising from the sale of assets held over 18 months, reducing taxes on short term capital gains and capital gains by taxpayers in low income brackets; 3) an amendment introduced by Idaho's Borah removing exemption provisions from all future issues of Government securities...
With the weight events scheduled for this afternoon, the annual University handicap track meet gets under way today. Open to all members of the University, the meet has drawn a large entry list. Flat races, hurdle events, and the jumps will be held tomorrow afternoon...