Word: options
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand. For an hour and a half a red-faced auctioneer knocked down $2,000 worth of chairs, tables, other track paraphernalia. Suddenly he declared a recess. After a long wait he returned to tell the crowd that the auction was off, someone had taken an option on the track...
...create any important profits; early this year the company announced it would be unable to pay on its notes. Standard Statistics Co., biggest of them all, began an expansion at the time of the 1929 crash, by 1931 had 1,300 employes, a lease on six floors (plus an option on two more) of a brand-new building and its own printing plant. When public interest in the market sank to apathy, Standard could not retrench fast enough. Salaries were cut, the staff was trimmed, executives went months without pay. Nevertheless, the company probably lost money steadily from 1933 through...
...Actors' orphanage, been mistress of ceremonies on recordings made by Broadway stars for the British forces. She is now raising funds for entertainment units to perform for the troops, and arranging for the nationwide sale of Lawrence-approved fashions, the proceeds to go to Britain. She has a contract option for a three-month vacation this summer, expects to spend it playing in theatricals for English soldiers. The life she leads may well explain why she can eat anything she likes without losing her figure...
...executed Form 1040. Said C. P. A. Lasser: by upping their advertising costs, typical corporations can reduce by 24% to 60% the size of their tax payments next March. Sample: a firm netting $50,000, of which $25,000 is in the "excess" brackets, would (using the "average-earnings" option) owe $14,312 in taxes. By spending an extra $25,000 for advertising, this firm could reduce its tax bill to $4,152 (the normal tax on $25,000 income). Profits, of course, would also be reduced; the tax saving is merely a discount on the cost of the advertising...
This situation was not to Franklin Roosevelt's political advantage. As long as affairs abroad crowded the campaign and Wendell Willkie off the front page, he had had the spotlight to himself. The reversal of news values gave Franklin Roosevelt the option of sharing the spotlight with his rival or of losing it entirely...