Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although there was a falling off in the income and profits taxes, the lowering of the income surtax from 63% to 50% maximum has apparently resulted in more revenue, as Secretary Mellon predicted. Income taxes for the quarters ending March 30 and June 30, 1923, were $464,684,211 and $352,966,763 respectively; for corresponding periods...
...shadow for a few brief moments - a sight which has not been visible in the United States since June 8, 1918. A time-table of the eclipse's visitation to the various cities of the United States (local standard time) is appended: Percentage Time of Disk Maximum Place. Covered. Eclipse. New York 46% 4:38 P. M. Boston 42 4:36 " Buffalo 45 4:31 " Washington 50 4:39 " Chicago 52 3:26 " St. Paul 51 3:15 "; St. Louis 60 3:29 "; Atlanta 64 3:43 " New Orleans 76 3:44 " Denver 71 2:09 " Salt Lake City...
...people's pockets, whoever they be; he is anxious to put money into the Government's pocket. He believes that decreasing surtaxes is the way to do this, and points with considerable justification to increased Government revenue this year which has followed the reduction of maximum surtaxes from 65% to 50% and the abolition of the excess profits tax. The reason for this, he believes, is less tax evasion either by falsification of returns or by investment in tax-exempt securities, non-productive forms of investment. He is inclined to think that the maximum surtax should...
...combined circulation of Cairo's newspapers is, however, probably not over 180,000 at maximum. No less than seven New York papers and four Chicago papers have each more circulation than the entire newspaper sales of the bejournalized city of the Nile...
...electric freight locomotives will weigh 360 tons, and their sixteen driving axles will develop a normal capacity of 4,000 horsepower, and a maximum of 5,000 for an hour. Their maximum speed will be 45 miles an hour...