Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men's States, and Pennsylvania, have experimented with gross sales levies upon producers, wholesale houses and the like. Many a State taxes retail sales on specific commodities to obtain funds for specific purposes, viz, the gasoline tax for road maintenance. The Governors of Georgia and West Virginia did not favor a general retail tax, exemplified by existing law in Kentucky. They talked about taxes on gross sales as a means of obtaining almost the entire revenue of a State...
Wired Hearst Correspondent William P. Flythe from Washington: "In highly confidential naval circles, where admirals may not talk for publication, it was said the two statements from Great Britain were only propaganda to influence the United States Senate and obtain American ratification of the pact...
Chicago's "Secret Six" under Col. Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Association of Commerce, met with 48 business leaders last week, increased its subsidiary finance committee from nine to 16 members, obtained pledges of $500,000 to combat crime, hoped to obtain...
...Passed a bill providing that no alien may be disbarred from U. S. citizenship for having withdrawn his citizenship papers in order to obtain quicker discharge from the Army after the Armistice...
Since what goes up may have to come down, the Department of Commerce last week announced that, beginning July 1, it would test and certificate parachutes as well as planes. With new types of parachutes coming on the market in rapid succession, parachute accidents have been increasing. To obtain certificates of approval, manufacturers will not have to submit each & every 'chute to inspection, but one of each type offered for sale. Minimum test requirements...