Word: nets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany. Government agents counted on him as a star witness. They were shocked last week, when the investigation started: Ignatz Griebl had boarded the Bremen and was on the high seas, bound for Germany. At first glance, it appeared that this escape of Ignatz from a hair net was a brilliant piece of work. The assumption proved unwarranted. In his haste to leave, Dr. Griebl, naturalized in 1926, had forgotten to take along his U. S. passport. At Cherbourg French authorities were denied permission to search the ship for him. When the Bremen docked in Germany, he was promptly arrested...
Henry and Powers led the Eli attack with four and three goals respectively as the well-balanced Yale team out-whacked Skip Stahley's net-wielders...
Corporation A reports a net income of $25,000, of which $20,000 was distributed in dividends. Under the 1936 law it would have been liable, besides a normal tax ranging from 8% on its first $2,000 up to 15% on all over $40,000, to a special tax ranging from 7% on any undistributed profits constituting 10% or less of its net income, to 27% on all over 60%. Corporation A's normal tax would have been $2,890, the tax on its 10% undistributed profits $147.70. Total: $3,037.70. Under the 1938 bill Corporation A will...
Corporation B reports a net income of $1,000,000, of which $200,000 was distributed in dividends. Under the 1936 law Corporation B would have paid a normal tax of $148,840. Because it retained more than 60% of its earnings, it would also have paid up to the maximum rate of 27% on its undistributed profits, another $120,487.80. Total: $269,327.80. Under the 1938 bill, corporations earning more than $25,000 will pay a flat tax of 19% minus 2½% of the amount it distributed in dividends. If Corporation B retains the same share...
...Jeez, I'm drunk! I guess I don't know where I am!" Apparently the fellow was resourceful; but probability was added to his statement net only by his evident discomfiture, but by the fact that he was working with the lights turned...