Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greater part ($52,786,186,000) of this sandbagging sum is to go for war expenses. For "normal" requirements, including interest on the public debt: $6,141,806,300 ($437,464,462 less than in the current fiscal year...
...figures were too tremendous to grasp, but statisticians fumbled feebly with them. Mr. Roosevelt was asking the U.S. to spend in one twelvemonth a sum: 1) $21,000,000,000 greater than the total value of all securities on the New York Stock Exchange; 2) equal to the entire dollar value of all the products turned out in 1939 by the 184,000 factories in the U.S.; 3) equivalent to $3,295 per hour since the start of the Christian...
...some of which range to 200%, such a squawk is expected that taxperts figured that Congress would raise rates so steeply as to pick up another billion dollars. > Manufacturers' excise taxes: if Congress can be kept from providing exemptions this tax can be made to pay almost any sum-unless it cooks the nation's goose. > Estate and gift taxes: almost certain to be raised to the last possible notch. > Proposals to cut off all income above a certain figure have very little chance of enactment. This tax would work so that no one could have an income...
...This harassing litigation and the unjustified demand for the absurd sum of $10,000,000 . . . are not in key with the American war effort...
...those businessmen who had money left over after taxes for investment, they also found little use for it. The underwriting fraternity siphoned $1,000,000,000 into new private investment, which would have been a respectable sum in a less prosperous year. Meanwhile RFC had by Dec. 1 poured $851,000,000 into new plants and enterprises for defense. Jesse Jones was no longer a village banker preoccupied with risk and interest rates; he was putting the Government into the munitions business, partly because it was no kind of business for private investors. But meanwhile private investors found other outlets...