Word: second-class
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...Metro, Paris subway, in which one has the choice of riding first-class or second-class, is chiefly owned by a Belgian, M. le Baron Jean Empain, a director in 80 companies, board chairman of 25, a sportive gentleman among whose friends are the famed Dolly Sisters...
...Approve the Finance Committee's increase in second-class mail rates (upped ½¢ to 3? zone) and first-class rates (upped...
Last week Senator Reed voted aggressively for each & every "nuisance" tax item that appeared. In addition, he got back of the second-class postal rate increases. What he expected soon happened. The potent motor, radio, cosmetics, and candy lobbies whose products had been singled out for taxation sent up a wounded howl. The proposed tax on bank checks trod on the toes of the American Bankers Association. Publishers, many of them on failure's brink, protested the postal rates...
With an estimated 45 votes behind him, Massachusetts' Walsh, never before a Sales Tax champion, suddenly brought forth a measure to make the second-class postal increase unnecessary (a bid for Press support) and tax all manufacturers alike. He proposed a 1.75%, general manufacturers sales tax, conservatively estimated to yield $325,000,000, the law to expire July 1, 1934. Exempt would be food, cheap clothing, agricultural products, workmen's tools, tobacco, nonproprietary medicines, periodicals...
...same statement also shows that the tremendous losses sustained by the department are in handling second-class mail, newspapers and magazines. Deficit on this class. 1931. 97 millions. Average annual loss, five-year period, over 90 millions. Uncle Sam paid out nearly $5 for every dollar of revenue from this class last year...