Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advice of the Tariff Commission President Roosevelt cut the duty on imported beer from $31 to $15.50 per bbl. That still left the rate $10.50 per bbl. higher than the tax on domestic beer...
Unemployment Insurance. A Federal tax on payrolls will finance the plan. The rate will scale up to 3% in 1938. In any year an employer may deduct up to 90% from his payroll tax for the amount he pays into his State's unemployment insurance fund. The States, within limits, will be permitted to figure out their own insurance plans, but the funds collected must be deposited for safekeeping in the U. S. Treasury. Suggested plan for State adoption...
Last week the Kansas City Times (morning edition of the Kansas City Star) took editorial note of the fact that Kansas City had had six killings in the past 14 days. Bemoaned was the city's homicide rate, approximately double the average of 180 U. S. cities...
Iowa is a pleasant city of 61,000 souls. Last week when suicide figures for 1933 had been tabulated it was found that Davenport, as it had in 1932, led all U. S. cities with a rate of 40.3 suicides per 100,000 population, almost double the average of the nation...
Although the use of this lot for parking was suggested by undergraduates, it was not supposed that a prohibitive rate would be levied. The University must charge something to defray the cost of maintenance but a lot completely used, at a low rate, would be financially better for Lehman Hall than a lot only sparsely filled at a high rate. A fifty per cent reduction of the present rate is the only way to make this lot advantageous to both the University and the students. The increased patronage would adequately cover the difference between the income the lot now yields...