Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Winsloe was alive and well the last time her friends here heard from her, which was less than a month ago. She lives in Munich, not in London. She has been married once to Baron Ludwig Hatvany who lives in Budapest. She was divorced from him twelve years...
...discuss the Commission's investigation to ascertain whether radio broadcasting is a monopoly; Idaho's Senator William Borah, to discuss his bill to enforce anti-trust laws through Federal licensing of corporations. ¶ Presidential plans: a ten-day fishing trip starting this week; a two-month cruise along the west coast of South America next summer "if possible...
Conference. Byrnes Committee report was issued at precisely the moment when this recommendation was sure to have maximum effect. House & Senate committees-the latter headed by Senator Pat Harrison, whom Senator Byrnes is supposed to have persuaded to vote for the Reorganization Bill last month-had been deadlocked over the tax bill for a week. Cause of the deadlock: Pat Harrison's Senate Committee was adamant about eliminating the undistributed profits tax entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving...
...years. The Revenue Bill passed by the House last March imposed: 1) 16% levies on all corporation profits, a 4% surtax on profits undistributed in dividends; 2) levies on capital gains by taxing all of such gains only when made by the sale of assets held less than 13 months, 40% of gains made by selling assets held longer than five years. The Revenue Bill passed by the Senate last month called for: 1) a flat 18% on all corporate profits; 2) further modification of capital gains taxes by lowering not the amount of taxable gains but the tax rate...
...strands of wire, wear out quickly. If equipped with barbs, as most of them are, they occasionally injure animals severely. Electric fences can be put up at about a third the cost of the old-type fence and the operating expense is negligible-usually not more than 18? a month. The better fences give short intermittent shocks, so that animals will not "freeze" to the wire, as they might if the current were strong & steady. Once shocked, most animals will stay away from the wire...