Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...net income after taxes would be reduced by only $25,000. Meanwhile Loew's would drop $45,000 into the pension fund for him. Thus a big pay cut now, when taxes are skyhigh, means only a small net reduction in his income...
...Canadians (average 1942 income: $665), the new allowances would be literally money from heaven, a substantial increase in the family income. A Canadian farm family, for example, with four children and a net cash income of $50 a month, would immediately have 50% more to spend...
...Canadians who pay income taxes (2,000,000), the new allowances would, in the end, mean little or no actual gain. The catch: they will lose all or part of the net tax exemptions which they now receive for each child. The Government hopes to pick up $50,000,000 in increased tax revenue, hold the net cost of the plan to $200,000,000 a year. Even so this would be a whopping addition to the Dominion budget...
Franklin Roosevelt, just two weeks before the Republican convention, was on the safest possible middle ground on internationalism-whatever that net-to-catch-the-wind may mean. He had gained a point: his critics can no longer say he has no international program...
Roger Touhy, Gangster (20th Century-Fox) is a double-helping of nostalgia for cinemaddicts who remember some of the most exciting U.S. movies ever made, such gangster films as Underworld, Drag Net, Public Enemy, Little Caesar. Here, as in the old days, sedans careen fiercely, eyes go deadly at the business-ends of tommyguns, actors circle each other tensely, growling like enraged tom cats, and the iron, melancholic beauty of U.S. city streets and interiors is appreciated as it seldom is in gentler films. Yet taken all in all, Touhy isn't really a very good show...