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Britain typically relies on special instead of general tax boosts, raises only 48% of its government revenue through corporate and personal income taxes, as against 60% in the U.S. Rates, on the whole, are steeper than in the U.S. Britain's 40% corporate tax compares to 48% in the U.S., but personal income taxes reach 91% on all earnings above $36,400 v. a top of 70% on incomes above $100,000 in the U.S. Now, Britain has embraced deliberately discriminatory taxes to tinker with its troubled economy. That may well prove a high price to pay in order...
Undaunted by such practicalities, Cooper has also set up and solved by computer a set of differential equations for curved tunnels that would provide minimum gravity-powered travel time between any two cities on earth. These tunnels would swoop into the ground at steeper angles and penetrate to even greater depths. Though travel times would vary, all would be less than the 42.2 minutes required for straight-line trips...
...Polaroid packs and $5.19 for color Polaroid packs). Polaroid's strategy is to create lower-priced cameras in order to increase demand for its film. The company's after-tax profits run to a high 12½% of sales, but its profit margin on film is even steeper, perhaps as high as 30%. Earlier this year, Land disclosed that Polaroid had passed a significant milestone: sales of film exceeded sales of cameras for the first time, will account for 55% of the company's volume in 1965. Polaroid has thus changed from a company selling mostly...
...group's performance last year was disappointing. Despite record sales of $6.9 billion, a sharp drop in gasoline and oil prices in Europe and Japan helped depress profits 3% to $583 million. Without U.S. Shell, which is 69% owned by its European parent, the slide would have been steeper. The profits of Spaght's realm rose 10% (to $198 million), fueled principally by a record $2.8 billion in sales. Since taking charge four years ago, Spaght has expanded marketing facilities so shrewdly that gasoline sales have shot up more than 40% . Last year alone, Shell...
...stairs growing steeper?" ask advertisements in West German newspapers. "Or why is it that you must stop and rest halfway, with your heart beating in your throat?" The answer, according to the ad, is not to take the elevator but to take the cure at Bad Tölz, a gemütlich Bavarian spa* where "a new, particularly iodine-rich spring gives your blood vessels elasticity, your heart strength, your nerves fresh vigor." Like all the 140 officially recognized watering places in West Germany, Bad Tölz is itself in the pink of condition, thanks to a booming...