Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington researcher, a thorough going reprimand for gross error...
Eating. Jubilantly, the William Alexander Barber interests, which last year wrested control of Childs Co. (lunch rooms) from the Childs family, announced last week a 100% rise in first-six-months earnings for 1930 over 1929. Though gross has declined slightly, net has more than doubled: from 68¢ a share in 1929 to $1.35 a share in 1930. Weeding out of unprofitable restaurants, economies in management, are responsible...
West Virginia's Conley, initiator of the subject, praised the gross sales tax for its flexibility. He said: "The method of its application can make it take on the color and character of an income tax, of a depletion tax, of a consumption tax, of a production tax." He decried the net income tax as "penalizing efficient management...
Georgia's Hardman quoted from tax return tables to show how small were individual taxes on the gross sales of any one business...
Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christianson, Iowa's Governor John Hammill, Nebraska's Governor Arthur J. Weaver thought well of the scheme, asked many a question. Chief question: how to keep State legislatures from adding the gross sales tax to other burdens, instead of substituting it for them...