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...main features of the Finance Committee version are: ¶ Restoration of the original surtax rates proposed by Secretary Mellon (maximum surtax 25%; normal tax 3% up to $4,000, 6% on $4,000 and more...
...Restoration of the estate tax to the present maximum of 25% on estates of $10,000,000 and more. (The House had fixed...
...Endowment Fund drive which is going on at present, is intended to provide means whereby the School may grow, but the present action is absolutely necessary at this time because the applications for admission have been gradually increasing each year, and 600 represents the maximum number which can be cared for under present conditions...
There are three exciting adventures now in progress, according to Professor Davis, which if successful will revolutionize the transformation of heat into power, which is the basis of all mechanical. engineering. The development of a steam pressure of 1200 pounds to the square inch, or over four times the maximum pressure possible a decade ago, is imminent. The use of mercury turbines which, although dangerous to the extreme, would save infinite leakage of heat is the second of these experiments. The third is a new internal combustion engine involving a water jacket which would eliminate the necessary high temperatures...
Stationary but not unoccupied, the tax reduction bill remained in the Senate Finance Committee, preparing for its appearance in the upper House. The most important thing which befell the bill was the displacement of the Longworth compromise tax rates (maximum surtax 371/2%) by the original Mellon rates (maximum surtax 25%). This was done by vote of 8 to 7. Two members of the Committee were absent. One of them, Senator LaFollette, would have voted with the Democrats against the change. The other, Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, Republican, was classified as "uncertain." In their double absence, however, the thing...