Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manufacturers' sales tax at 5%: $530,000,000. An increase of the normal income tax from 4% to 6% : $121,000,000. Higher surtaxes in $3,000-to-$100,000 brackets: $226,000,000. About 30 excise taxes on farm products at rates lower than the extinct processing taxes: $221,000,000. An increase of the Federal gasoline tax from 1? to 1½?per gal.: $80,000,000. Louder groans than before rose from the House committee. Compared to these burdensome taxes, with their low yield, the President's tax on undivided profits seemed the least...
Last week the $140,000,000 Florida Ship Canal, which southern Floridians claim will make the lower half of that State an arid waste, was back in the Washington news when it was discovered that President Roosevelt is apparently determined to push this project despite the House's refusal to appropriate money for it (TIME, Feb. 17). The President started this Atlantic-to-Gulf waterway with five million relief dollars, allotted $200,000 more when that ran out. Last month the House declined to appropriate $12,000,000 to keep the work going, on the legitimate ground that Congress...
...really knew last week what the effect of the new rates will be. In general, the railroads welcomed the reduction. Only the New York, New Haven & Hartford, Pennsylvania and New York Central actively opposed it. Greyhound Corp. stock dropped six points. Almost everywhere present bus rates will still be lower than the new rail rates...
...great Stanislavski now nurses ill health behind the calcimined walls of a bourgeois mansion, his Moscow Art Theatre, with the famed sea gull from Chekhov's play on its curtain, remains "a spot sacred and awesome to the man of the theatre. . . . The audience seems to talk in lower tones here; their hair is combed more carefully. Their shirts are cleaner than in other theatres." The Days of the Tnrbins provided Observer Houghton's first impression. The play was an extremely sympathetic treatment of a White family during the horrors of the 1917-22 civil war. First presented...
Featuring the exhibition is a self portrait in the lower room of the museum. Bristling quince-colored hair, streaked with light, is brushed back en brosse into a stippled green background. The face has a yellow tinge, the eyes are disdainful and cold above an astonishing fiery red beard. It is not hard to imagine the possessor of such features racing helter-skelter through life and at last landing in an insane asylum...