Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only outright excise repeal the Ad ministration had in mind was the 3% tax on freight transportation and the 20% tax on baby oils, powders and lotions. A few other items came in for varying cuts: plane, bus and train tickets (from 15% to 10%), long distance telephone and telegraph tolls (25% to 15%), furs, luggage, jewelry and cosmetics (20% to 10%). The tax would stay on such items as movie tickets, sport goods and autos-and the 10% tax on radio would be extended to television sets as well...
...Fair Return." The steelworkers' new pensions and insurance alone, said Fairless, would cost U.S. Steel $3.88 a ton "and more than offset the $3.82 per ton which we hope to obtain from our price increase." Other costs were also up. Big Steel's annual fuel and freight bill, for instance, had risen by $33 million...
...billion in additional taxes, Harry Truman did aim a pitchfork jab in the general direction of big estates and corporate profits. To another section of business he was kind: he called for reduction of the whopping wartime excise taxes on such items as plane, train and bus travel, freight shipments, long-distance telephone calls, cosmetics and handbags...
...from Boston to Washington and up through the Midwest to the Twin Cities. Overexpanded and harried by labor troubles, Jack Keeshin had pulled out of the line in 1945 (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945) just before it slumped into bankruptcy. Nursed back to health by court appointed trustees, the Keeshin Freight Lines made $484,000 before taxes...
When P.I.E.'s routes are spliced to Keeshin's, P.I.E. will have a 24,000-mile coast-to-coast truck network, winding through 23 states and the District of Columbia. By running Keeshin's routes with P.I.E. efficiency, Humphries & Johnson think they can truck freight from coast to coast in 9off sleep with coffee. A P.I.E. run from Oakland to Chicago uses a relay team of ten men, one for each section of the route which twists up the gear-grinding slopes of the Rockies and through the Midwest plains to the East...