Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard a story concerning Sir Arthur Eddington that may have a grain of truth. Sir Eddington had entered Sever Hall and was looking about rather bewildered, until his eye fell on a bellboy stationed there. he approached the bellboy and announced. "I am Sir Arthur Eddington...
...bread. An amazing political document, the list contained not 58 different kinds of taxes, but only 16 types, which the Republicans had multiplied by applying them individually at each step in the process of making and selling a loaf of bread. Thus a Federal income tax paid by farmer, grain elevator, flour mill, railroad, flour trucker, baking company and retail distributor counted as seven taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only 13 of the 58 taxes were Federal. The rest were state, county, local or municipal.* Of the 16 kinds of taxes, only three were Federal: On income...
...Samples: Local real-estate tax, county real-estate tax, municipal real-estate tax, school district real-estate tax, local personal property tax, county personal property tax, municipal personal property tax, state income tax, motor license tax, auto truck state license tax, occupation tax, tax on grain storage, electricity...
...Glen Cove last week arrived Grain Broker Herbert L. Bodman on his yacht. He was returning from a three-week, six-horse cavalcade on which, followed by chauffeur & groom with Ford trailer containing stove, icebox and 200-lb. of oats, Broker Bodman, his wife, their son & daughter and two friends had ridden horseback 360 miles to Rutland...
This made the official requirement 8? instead of 4½?, but grain houses were already asking from 8? to 10? margin...