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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Utah the new tax law works on a sliding scale up to 4% on net incomes over $9,000. The Idaho law scales up to 4% on incomes over $6,000. In Vermont earned incomes are taxed at the flat rate of 2%, unearned incomes at 4%. Exemptions range from $1,000 up. Revision of income tax law tending toward higher rates occurred in Oklahoma, Oregon, Missouri, Georgia. In Illinois the Senate sent an income tax bill to the House, despite the warning of constitutional experts that such a levy was unconstitutional in that State...
...spendthrifts, were ready to spend three-quarters of a billion francs ($30,000,000). They wanted to put the French Empire where it belongs and where it is not, namely on the world's mental map, where the British Empire is. The idea: a vast Colonial Exposition on a scale never before conceived. The offer: "Will you, Marshal Lyautey, take charge as Commissioner General...
...State of New York last week definitely decided to go into the hydroelectric power business on a scale as large as the U. S. at Boulder Dam. The Legislature at Albany passed a bill creating a State Power Authority to conduct this ambitious utility enterprise. The Power Authority will construct a $171,547,000 dam and generating plant near Massena Point on the international rapids of the St. Lawrence River. It will market the energy? some 2,000,000 h. p.?there produced, through private distributing agencies already in the utility field...
...Sharp had been editor of the Scripps-Howard Press in Memphis. All he had asked of his chiefs was enough money for a hatful of type, one reporter and a couple of business aids. That was the scale on which Old Man Scripps started most of his papers, beginning with the Cleveland Press. But that was not the way Roy Howard and his partner Robert Paine Scripps, the Old Man's youngest son. thought things should be done in modern times...
...entire project, developed in the Stout Engineering Laboratories at Dearborn, is ostensibly Designer Stout's. But rumors in the industry persist that, if successful after six months trial, the plane will be taken over by Ford for large-scale production...