Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Percentage Table for calculating the proportion of a gain or loss to be used for tax purposes would be graduated by months instead of years. Thus, at present, a capital gain on an asset held less than a year is 100% taxable income, but of a capital gain on an asset held for a year and a day only 80% is taxable income. So people are encouraged to hold securities until the next bracket is reached. The new table would step down 2% per month from 13 months to 25 months, after that at 1% so that a capital gain...
...business. But one picture magazine, LIFE, made the most brilliant new showing of the year by selling $7,300,000 worth of space in the first eleven months, crowding into the Big Eight.* The in other leading magazines carried $161,000,000 worth of advertising in 1937, a 15% gain...
Billboards-Outdoor advertising, not quite so susceptible to quick shifts in business confidence, also showed a 15% gain over 1936 with a $40,000,000 total...
Newspapers-Twenty-three daily papers folded last year and the 2,084 remaining squeezed by with a 2% gain over 1936. However, the $595,000,000 spent for newspaper advertising is still the elephant's helping of the $928,000,000 rough total (excluding weekly newspapers) of tallied advertising...
Harvard should do everything it can to gain special rights for its undergraduates on local courses...