Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are no local income taxes in Great Britain.? The local "rates" (county taxes) are assessed on the rented or presumptive rental value of property. Contrarywise in the U. S., property taxes are assessed on the presumptive sale value...
...Whitney explained that the sale of a long stock is far more depressing than a short sale, pointed out that the Administration's reconstruction measures have given investors an opportunity to get out of the market. Small investors have increased during Depression, he said. Asked to what cause he attributed the slump in prices, he replied...
...held in the offices of General Electric Co., was not revealed. The problem to be untangled was how to reorganize the vast Insull structure so that neither noteholders nor bankers will step in and disrupt it. To do this will probably demand either a tremendous extension of credit, a sale of some assets, the issuance of new securities to noteholders and bankers, or a combination of these steps. While it was stated that Owen D. Young was entering the situation only as Samuel Insull's personal friend historians recalled that in the early days of the utilities. General Electric assisted...
Tickets will be on sale on Friday, and invitations will be sent out as soon as the tickets are sold. It is not known yet definitely whether meals will be served in the House members' rooms, since the possibility is contingent upon the number of men who signify their desire to take advantage of this privilege. Those who wish to have meals for their guests in their rooms may signify their intention by seeing J. McG. J. Boppkol ocC in the House library by next week...
...Last winter he reduced pilots' wages, came into conflict with the Airline Pilots Association, affiliated with the A. F. of L. (TIME, Feb. 22). The 23 pilots of Century Air Lines quit (they charged a "lock-out") and service was interrupted until a "strikebreaking" crew was trained. By the sale to Avco a complete operating personnel of 350 is thrown out of work. Last week, in his apartment in the tower of Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Cord intimated that the pilots (about 50 including Century Pacific's) would be "taken care of" with "perhaps several months...