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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. 2) A flat additional tax of 10% (to last for one year) on all personal income taxes after they have been calculated in the ordinary way-to yield $55,000,000. 3) A new estate tax, cutting exemptions from $50,000 to $40,000 and boosting the scale from a top of 45% to a top of 60% (on estates over $10,000,000)-to yield $90,000,000. 4) A boost of the surtax so that it will begin at 3% instead of 4% and make corresponding boosts in all the income brackets between...
Another of M. Doumergue's decrees will trim salaries on a sliding scale. There will be a 20% cut for President Lebrun, 15% for the Cabinet. 10% for all salaries over 100,000 francs. Even 12,000-francers will lose 5% of their small wage. The Cumul will be abolished, the system whereby one employe holds several posts and draws pay for each, nor can anyone be appointed to a government post in future who already draws a pension. Veterans' pensions will be cut. Politicians waited nervously to see how the public would react to these decrees...
...plan to rebuild a large scale-map of the Yard is to be discussed at the meeting. Such a map was put up by the Memorial Society in front of University Hall, but was removed to make place for the statue of John Harvard. The Society also plans to put up a plaque in Holworthy Hall to commemorate Charles William Eliot's residence there in Holworthy...
...rest went back to the mines on Tuesday, it was to work not eight hours but seven. For last week United Mine Workers of America signed an agreement with most of the Appalachian operators providing for a seven-hour day, a five-day week and a basic wage scale of $5 per day. By administrative order General Johnson promptly made it effective for the whole bituminous industry, thus making Coal's work week the shortest for any major industry. It was estimated that, including the cut in hours, the wage increase amounted to about $100,000,000 annually...
...distributed evenly among the earth's 2,000,000,000 inhabitants, every living human would receive the equivalent, at Roosevelt prices, of about $24,500. Last week Thomas Midgley Jr., vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., predicted that extraction of the ocean's gold on a commercial scale would begin in ten years. Mr. Midgley pointed out that ten years ago no one thought it possible to get bromine from the ocean on a commercial basis. Today his corporation, with Dow Chemical Co., operates a plant south of Wilmington, N. C. on the Cape Fear River which every...