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...soon overflow with the biggest corn crop since 1932, corn supplies last week were very low because last year's carryover was the smallest of this century. With deliveries of September corn futures due on Sept. 30, longs had the best opportunity in many a harvest moon to soak shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Corn Corner | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...TIME, May 3). This bill was to help hugely in paying for Rearmament by taxing of British firms on a sliding scale proportionate to the rate at which their profits have increased this year and continue to increase during Britain's five-year Rearmament program. It was to soak the profiteers. In his first weeks as Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain was harassed by more high-powered letters of complaint and suggestion personally signed by top bigwigs of British trade, industry and finance than he had received during his whole long career as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The final result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Simple Simon's Tax | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Newshawks smacked their lips over a good story and a better one to come, for tax-dodging tycoons are juicy copy. But newshawks were gently cynical, just two years ago at this time the President put forward his soak-the-rich inheritance, gift and surtaxes. Early last year he put forward his undivided profits tax on corporations. Some suggested that Franklin Roosevelt was having a periodic attack of soak-the-richitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 750 Rich Men | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

LOEW'S STATE--Night Must Fall: 11:25, 2:50, 6:25, 10:00. Good Old Soak: 11:15, 1:30, 5:05, 8:40. Former a first rate thriller, latter owes its entertainment to contrast. An excellent program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

LOEW'S STATE -- Night Must Fall: 11:15, 2:50, 6:25, 10:00. Good Old Soak: 11:15, 1:30, 5:05, 8:40. Former a first rate thriller, latter owes its entertainment to contrast. An excellent program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/13/1937 | See Source »

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