Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mattered not to the President that his Commerce Department's own Business Advisory Council had promulgated a tax revision program just like John Hanes's. What the President stuck for was the undistributed profits tax, a symbol to him of taxation-for-social control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance...
...mattered not to the President that his Commerce Department's own Business Advisory Council had promulgated a tax revision program just like John Hanes's. What the President stuck for was the undistributed profits tax, a symbol to him of taxation-for-social control. Its aim is to force rich corporations to distribute earnings instead of keeping them in surplus. It also forces not-so-rich corporations to pay out, in dividends, earnings which they may need for capital expansion, or to pay debts, or as insurance against lean years. When Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance...
...warm day last summer a New York World-Telegram rewrite man became slightly silly while reading a weather report, stuck a piece of paper in his typewriter and wrote: "Today is a nice day." This got into the paper, and next thing the Telegram's city room knew, people were calling up to offer congratulations. Since then the World-Telegram has run a gag story on the weather every two or three days, and they have become the big town's richest newspaper chuckle. Sample...
Attracted by the oozing sap, a winged bark louse flitted greedily around the tree. Alighting on the sticky stuff, he was soon stuck fast. A watchful spider darted toward the struggling louse, had almost reached him when the flow of sap engulfed both him and his quarry...
Having been stuck with a $16,600,000 debt as the result of overexpansion in 1930, Oliver Farm Equipment Co. has moved cautiously with Raydex, testing it quietly for three years. But word of its merit spread so fast among farmers that Oliver had orders for 7,000 even before it formally announced Raydex to its dealers last week. It expects to sell 150,000 by autumn...