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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroads petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15% freight rate rise last fall, motor carriers hastened to follow suit. Last week ICC tossed motor carriers the same "half a life-preserver and a book on swimming" that it gave the railroads fortnight ago-an average 5.3% increase in maximum rates...
...Republic claims is the world's largest, fastest and most mechanized continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre pile in Cleveland's desolate Cuyahoga River valley, the new $15,000,000 plant can turn out 70,000 gross tons of steel a month, but it employs a maximum of 2,000 men. And under last week's slim demand for steel, the mill operated smoothly with scarcely a man in sight for a quarter-mile at a stretch...
...normal corporate tax, the House Ways & Means Committee managed to modify the principle beyond recognition without loss of revenue. In the first basket all corporations earning $25,000 or less were exempted entirely from the undistributed profits tax. The second basket placed a trifling undistributed profits tax (maximum: 4%) on all other corporations- with certain exceptions. One exception was closely-held corporations making more than $75,000. For this group-in the third basket-the surtax and income tax together would work out in most cases at less than the highest effective rate at present: 32.4%. But the third basket...
...slavery is provided by a sample course of an honors concentrator. The first year is the easiest, with Chemistry A and Physics C depriving him of only two or three afternoons a week. But the Sophomore must solemnly bid farewell to sunshine and blue skies above, for the official maximum estimate of his laboratory hours in Chemistry 2 and Chemistry 3 is nineteen per week and he will do well to finish his work in that time. The Junior, with Chemistry 4 and Chemistry 6, practically establishes residence in the laboratories. The catalog estimates a mere twenty-four hours...
...been granted by Congress for relief. More than half of this amount has been allocated to WPA, making it the New Deal's greatest spending agency. Wages and salaries accounted for 85% of the money spent. Administrative costs were well under the 5% maximum allowed...