Word: scale
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When Ways & Means hearings on the tax bill began this week, not even a tentative scale of taxes was available to the public. This did not bother Chairman Doughton unduly. "There is no use drawing a bill," said he, "just to shoot it down...
...Inheritance taxes. The Federal Government already has an estate tax which, on a graduated scale, takes a percentage of the property a man leaves upon his death. In addition a tax would be imposed upon the recipient of any part of a legacy, depending upon the size of his share. Thus, if a man should leave a $10,000,000 estate to one heir there would be one high inheritance tax. If he should leave the same amount divided equally among ten heirs, there would be ten inheritance taxes, the total of the ten taxes being less than...
Citizens bent on refining Pittsburgh's ebullient Mayor William Nissley McNair last fortnight took him to Kaufmann's Department Store to see "Broadacre City," a scale model of a modernistic decentralized community by Radical Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Mayor McNair whistled, let fly: "It's all right but you could never put Democrats in there. What if they'd want to get drunk or visit somebody's wife? This thing is Utopia. I'll bet they even tell you how many babies to have in each house. I just sent a gang of drunks to the workhouse. Put that bunch...
...potent one. Once great landowners, holders in territorial days of one enormous ranch that extended from Pefia Blanca to El Paso, Tex., members of the Otero family have been judges, governors, railroad builders, bankers, billiard champions, sportsmen. During the era of Western expansion, they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental in bringing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad into New Mexico...
Fairbanks, Morse still makes every conceivable variety of scales and distributes them throughout the world. But the great scale plant at St. Johnsbury has long since been overshadowed by the main Midwest plant at Beloit...