Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct taxes levied on the net incomes of individuals and corporations. Once this is done, every one pays for his fair share and knows just how much the Government is costing him. ... On the other hand, if the major portion of the Government's income is obtained from indirect and hidden taxes- taxes upon such things as food, clothing, gasoline and cigarets-then the main burden falls upon those of small income...
...stated in the text. Last year the reminiscences of Mabel Dodge Luhan (European Experiences) and Elizabeth Drexel Lehr ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) were prime examples of such oblique candor. Although both authors revealed an intermittent circumspection, both were sufficiently engrossed in telling their own stories to make indirect admissions of which they appeared to be unaware. Cut in the same pattern as those books, The Countess from Iowa is nevertheless much less interesting, much more guarded, offers little spur to the imagination...
Manufactured by General Motors, the new busses are chiefly notable in having their motors in the rear. This allows the driver to sit far forward, gives more room, makes the busses look almost the same at each end. They carry 36 passengers, three more than before, have roomier seats, indirect lighting. To eliminate "wheel seats" (seats over the wheel housing), the passenger deck is raised nearly 2 ft. so that passengers step up from the centre aisle. Made of aluminum, each coach is 5,000 lb. lighter than the old style, is rakishly painted to give an effect of graceful...
Under the Jones-White Act of 1928, the Government agreed to lend shipping companies up to 75% of construction costs, pay them fat mail contracts to subsidize operations. This indirect subsidy was still not enough to put U. S. ships on an equal competitive footing with directly subsidized foreign liners...
Nevertheless. Any loss in purchasing power in drought areas will be more than offset by spending of Bonus money. Economists are beginning to believe that indirect Bonus influences will eventually be greater than the effects of immediate spending. Even if a large proportion of the $1,900,000,000 Bonus bonds are not cashed, their possession will induce freer spending of regular income. Industries which will benefit most are clothing, building, radio, refrigerators, electric appliances, automobiles...