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...that a small cup cost 6?. After that they firmly told their hosts to tear up the leisurely itinerary that had been prepared. Instead of sightseeing or sambaing in nightclubs with gallants from the Chamber of Commerce, they flew directly to Parana's coffee-raising center, 200 miles inland from Sao Paulo. Full of questions about fertilizers, wages, harvesting methods and crop yields, they covered 150 miles of frost-burned coffee-land by motorcade and afoot. Trudging down rows of tree skeletons, Mrs. Chapman said: "This is very distressing-worse than we had imagined...
Lionel B. Hunter '37, president of Inland Steel Container Co., stated that Inland Steel's production division paid new employee $4,500 per year. In other divisions, the salary was slightly lower, Salaries in big business increase rather slowly, however, Harper disclosed...
State of the Nation has featured 22 governors-twelve Republicans and ten Democrats . . . [Guests on] Answers for Americans have been Senator Allen Ellender; W. Averell Harriman; William Caples, vice president, Inland Steel Co.; Dr. Walter...
...Said an Inland Revenue man succinctly: "Capital gains and expense accounts." Capital gains, whether they come from stocks, real-estate deals, or bets on the Derby, are untaxed in heavily taxed Britain. One financier recently made ?200,000 free and clear in three months in a foray into Savoy Hotel stock. The expense-account economy has been brought to a fine degree of urbane perfection. Firms buy their executives limousines with money that would otherwise go to the government. The country house is almost invariably a "farm" which regularly loses deductible money every year...
...Nowadays everybody fiddles," admitted an Inland Revenue man. It was about the only way to get one's supper at crowded places like Les Ambassadeurs (bill for two: $35), or to make one's appearance in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot (including a new dress each day, de rigueur for one's wife: $1,400 for the week...