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Excessive taxation of gasoline in Mississippi has stimulated bootlegging and tax evasion on a scale unequalled in few other States. The law permits refunds of taxes on gasoline used for non-highway purposes. Anyone in the know plays the refunding game. It has been estimated that fraudulent tax refunds in the State have been running from one to two million dollars a year. When Joe Keith last May, as assistant motor vehicle commissioner, started a drive against the tax dodgers, he cut down refunds by $68,000 a month, or over half a million dollars for the last eight months...
Free to set their own wage scale, Harlan operators claim to follow approximately the standard set by U. M. W. and the Appalachian Conference of operators (TIME, April 12). But Marshall Musick, a frail, sad-eyed union organizer whose .home was riddled with bullets one night last February, killing his son and seriously wounding his wife, told the Committee about the strings to that. Harlan miners, said he, average about $75 per month. Of this, 15% is deducted for rent on company-owned houses, fees to company-hired physicians, contributions to company burial funds. After an additional sum has been...
Taking up the topic of social security legislation in France, W. A. Sollohub draws together with the differences "striking parallels" between the Frank and American law making. Estimates of the costs of the French system have a direct bearing upon the scale of taxes now in force in this country to meet the expenditures undertaken...
Probable explanation of the honor in his case lies in the fact that every applicant for admission to the Medical School is automatically considered as a candidate for the "sliding scale" prize awards. This contrasts to the system in the College and Schools of Arts and Sciences and of Design, where the plan is also in effect, and where students make special application for the fellowships...
With the money now available, it is planned to award at least two of these fellowships a year. The method basing its remunerations on ability, character, and record without regard to financial need, carries the "sliding scale" feature and will take a man through the four year course on a maximum yearly award...