Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp boost on income surtaxes above the $150,000 level, reaching a high of 75% on incomes over $10,000,000. (Present top surtax: 59% over $1,000,000.) Estimated yield...
...drafting the foregoing tax schedules, Democratic members of the Ways & Means Committee became alarmed at reports that their bill was generally considered a dismal disappointment as a revenue-raiser. To stop this criticism they announced they would raise surtaxes not from the $150,000 but from the $50,000 level thereby pinch 7,000 instead of 1,000 taxpayers, thereby boost Federal revenue by an extra...
...which stood at 1,160,000 in January 1934, was down to 750,000 last week, due partly to army recruiting, partly to the boomlet's creation of more work and partly to spreading it thinner by introduction of the 40-hour week last October. The general price level, which II Duce has tried to force down (TIME, May 30, 1927 et seq.) has risen some 15%. Wages, more obedient to dictation, are down...
...most U. S. piano makers, business in recent years has been just one long C# minor adagio lamentoso. Sales, which were level at 320,000 units a year in the decade before 1925, dwindled to 25,000 in 1932, a monetary drop from $204,000,000 to $18,000,000. Obvious reason: the radio. Then began a slow upturn. U. S. piano sales last year were 44,000; this year they may reach 60,000. And last week when 2,000 people gathered in Chicago for three conventions, the National Association of Music Merchants, the National Association of Sheet Music...
...June than May, reported total output for the first six months of 1935 at 2,348,000 cars & trucks, a half-year figure exceeded only twice in history - 1929 and 1926. And ignoring for once the confusion of Washington news, the stockmarket climbed last week to the highest level of the year. Since last March when the ma ket upswing began, the Dow-Jones average of industrial stocks has rallied with only one serious interruption (at the death of the Blue Eagle) from 96.7 to 122.6, a gain of more than...