Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget, explained old President Laredo Bru, will leave Cuba with a $9,400,000 deficit, necessitating new taxes. The President proposed a tax of 1? a gallon on exported molasses, to bring in $1,600,000 yearly, a 5% tax on the gross product of mines, a tax on sugar used by national industries. A "forcible bill of exchange" for all credit sales, costing up to $200 on a transaction involving $50,000, would yield another $1,000,000, and a 5% tax on capital leaving the island $1,100,000 more. Biggest boost was suggested...
Died. Owen Cosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant of Carmarthen, 75, tallest (6 ft. 7 in.) member of the House of Lords; at his estate in Wales. Onetime head of 43 shipping companies operating 560 ships of 2,800,000 gross tons, he went to jail in 1931 for stating falsely the condition of his Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., was released in 1932 for good conduct, but with his health broken...
...pipe live steam underground to supply Manhattan buildings with heat. Oddly, the successful steam idea was ridiculed even more than the coal dream, which came to naught. Mr. Andrews burned to death in a fire that leveled his Fifth Avenue mansion in 1899, but the little steam company whose gross revenues the first year were some $200,000 grew into New York Steam Corp., world's biggest central heating concern with assets of $61,000,000 and annual revenues of more than...
...offer he could ill afford to refuse. To a syndicate of Texas oilmen he leased the Jumbo for 35 years with an option to buy it outright within 20 years for a cool $10,000,000. Under the lease the Austins will get from 10% to 20% of gross production, depending on the grade of the ore, but in no case less than $100,000 per year. Mr, Austin also stipulated that should the option be exercised, the $10,000,000 must be paid in instalments of not less than $1,000,000 annually. The $250,000 down payment last...
...Manhattan, police arrested Joseph Fox, 46, alias Joseph Wolf, Harry Gross, Harry Solomon, for picking a bus passenger's pocket. In court it was revealed that since 1904 he had been arrested 75 times in 14 cities-mostly on pickpocket charges-and convicted 26 times. Explained Pickpocket Fox: "Everybody has his own pattern cut out for him. This seems to be mine...