Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men's States, and Pennsylvania, have experimented with gross sales levies upon producers, wholesale houses and the like. Many a State taxes retail sales on specific commodities to obtain funds for specific purposes, viz, the gasoline tax for road maintenance. The Governors of Georgia and West Virginia did not favor a general retail tax, exemplified by existing law in Kentucky. They talked about taxes on gross sales as a means of obtaining almost the entire revenue of a State...
...swiftly and dangerously, Royal Mail passed its dividend (TIME, Dec. 23). Lord Kylsant, it appeared, had purchased investments in "other than shipping companies." Good-will was not augmented by the knowledge that Lord Kylsant draws a huge salary based on a percentage not of the profits, but of the gross...
...Governor Long made an angry gesture of revenge at his newspaper critics. Introduced into the House of Representatives by two Long cronies were two bills which would put Louisiana newspapers in a bad financial hole. Bill No. 1 provided for the collection of an annual 15% tax on the gross advertising revenue of all daily publishers. A newspaper would have to pay such a tax for each office that it operates. Failure to pay would render the publishers in contempt of court, liable to imprisonment...
...Gross fakery is apparent from the inclusion as "African" properties, of an armadillo (found only in the Americas), California pepper trees, a turtle with shells and wings glued...
...Sharkey and Schmeling went $177,917 each from gross receipts of $749,934; to the Free Milk Fund for Babies, Inc. (chairman, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst) went $150,000. The balance when expenses had been deducted, went to Madison Square Garden Corp...