Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather. It is mainly a question whether the farmer will do very well, or only fairly well. The real thrill in business just now is furnished by real estate. The Oct. 1 renting season comes on apace. Generally, rentals are falling over the whole country this fall, with a surplus of available houses, apartments and stores on hand. In some places, real estate brokers have frankly thrown up their hands and are renting for what they can get-a situation boding ill for "shoestring" holders. In other places, the real estate profession staunchly declare rentals will not come down...
...burdened with heavy debts and are passing through a period of unexampled depression. We need all our surplus cash to finance our own trade and develop our own resources. It is an act of criminal recklessness at such a time to guarantee huge sums of money to be spent in another country by a Government whose principles are predatory and destructive of all legitimate enterprise...
...thing, a revival of interest in wheat-growing is already evident. Also, the high price of corn is leading farmers to sell their surplus of it, instead of feeding it to hogs and cattle. In consequence, hogs and steers are being rushed to market also. Some long-headed farmers are therefore planning to devote more attention to livestock in the future...
...been General Superintendent of a coal company and a member of its Board of Directors. He had received $7,000 in salary and $3,500 as a yearly bonus, as well as directors' fees. The coal company had no regular system of paying pensions. It had a large surplus. The Directors' shares were sold, and the Board of Directors made a "gratuitous appropriation," equal to $3.00 a share, which was divided among various retiring employes. One of these was Mr. Parrott, who received $35,000. Mr. Parrott reported this sum as a gift and therefore not taxable. The coal company...
...real trouble has been that the U. S. Government has, under the specious pretext of a "franchise tax," confiscated the earnings of Reserve Banks over dividends at a modest return to surplus account. The Reserve Banks should be allowed to accumulate large surpluses, so that, in just such times as the present, they could pay dividends out of surplus for years if necessary...