Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled for profit, to prove his experience testified that in two years in the Army his dice had netted him $2,000. Vina did not testify about her previous experience. Solomonwise, the board last week allowed Eugene...
Against St. Andrews the starting forwards will be Miller, Clowes, Strong, Scott, Fisher, Harkness, Gephart, and Smith while the backfield includes Osgood, Profit, Desmond, Constable, Kidder, Watt, and Hadden...
...Bell System has successfully evaded effective State regulation, despite the separate corporate entities of the operating subsidiaries. . . . The System is treated as a unit for purposes of profit, and as a group of separate corporate legal entities for purposes of regulation." A. T. & T. is a utility and a monopoly and should therefore be regulated by the Government...
...York Central and C. & O. roads. The Commission shook its head again. To the open dismay of Mr. Loree, the Pennsylvania was allowed to buy up the Lehigh and the Wabash. But it was 1928. stocks had gone up, and Mr. Loree had $20,000,000 profit. There was plenty of cash in Delaware & Hudson when Depression...
...President had all the power to carry out the proposed reforms, and didn't use it. As a matter of fact, the Mobilization Day Bill goes further toward dictatorship than anything I've seen, and doesn't fulfill its avowed purpose of "taking the profit out of war." There's where it might be justifiable to shout 'dictator...