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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid at least three times on a sack of flour, by manufacturer, jobber, retailer. Its other complexities he suggested when he proposed some exemptions : salaries, wages, professional fees (where it would be an additional income tax), interstate transactions, first sale by producer of agricultural and livestock products, street car fares up to 10?, street sales of newspapers, charitable and church transactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Pappy's Panacea | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Manhattan kids last week had their first chance to go coasting since Thanksgiving. In its puckish fashion the stock-market also went tobogganing. Somewhat to the confusion of Wall Street, which was generally bullish, prices continued a slide that began with the new year. The Dow-Jones industrial stock average got down to 146.52, barely above the November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Moth Hole? | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...more than a month Wall Street and Washington have heard that roly-poly Howard Hopson, kingpin of $1,038,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric Co., was so ill he was under an oxygen tent. Since Mr. Hopson has often been "ill" when the Government wanted him for hearings and investigations of his fabulous operations, many a cynic wondered whether the utility magnate's latest indisposition was a portent of further trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Accounting Theory | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...couldn't turn a horse out in the street," said the workman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAGES: One-Year Plans | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...grand tour of Europe, always went armed. He also quarreled with peace-loving Partner Thurmond, ran against him for the legislature. On election day 1889, after a savage campaign, Colonel Falkner walked out unarmed after hearing he had won, met Colonel Thurmond, who shot him down on the main street of the town they both helped to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Dam Breaks | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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