Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Couzens, an original Ford incorporator, acquired his stock (2,180 shares) for some $40,000, prior to 1908, and sold it for some 30 millions in 1919. When Henry and Edsel Ford sought to buy him out in 1919, the Internal Revenue Bureau calculated that $9,489.34 per share was a fair price. Senator Couzens ultimately obtained $13,444 per share. He paid the U. S. a profits tax on the difference between the Revenue Bureau's fair price estimate and the price he received. That was in 1919 and the business seemed finished...
...please to pay some $10,000,000 more. Senator Couzens charged that some one in the Treasury Department had been told to look up his back tax returns and see if anything could be "gotten on him." But the Treasury Department denied this and said that the 1919 Ford stock profit item had been called to its attention by a letter-writer. The Treasury said that the value of the stock in 1913, when the income tax first operated, should have been made the basis of Senator Couzens' profit...
Lieut. Hoppin, known as a careful pilot,* met a nasty-looking rain squall between Binghamton and Cortland, N. Y. He thought it best to land and selected a field on a stock farm. The field was knobbly. The ship bounced and turned a somersault. Mr. Sweet, having unbuckled his safety-belt, was pitched against the cockpit wall. A head blow killed him. Lieut. Hoppin, belted in his seat, was unbruised...
...cause of heart disease) has shown encouraging effects in 270 cases of the fever.-Dr. James Craig Small of Philadelphia. By means of the cardiotachometer, machine with amplifying vacuum tubes, the tiny electrical current generated by each heart beat makes its record on a paper tape, like those in stock brokers' offices. Thus for the first time doctors can have a continuous record over hours or days of the effect of disease, drugs or exercise on the heart.-Dr. Ernst Philip Boas of New York City and Dr. Morris M. Weiss of Louisville...
...Sargent '02 of New York City, is a member of the firm of Kidder, Peabody and Company, a member of the governing committee of the New York Stock Exchange and director of several well known firms in New York City...