Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high dudgeon, OPA Boss Chester Bowles last week got after the clothing industry. He charged that manufacturers are deliberately making the clothing shortage worse, that they are holding back on shipments till after Jan. 1, to take advantage of the repeal of the excess-profits tax. Said Bowles: "The public's need for clothes seems to mean little to some producers...
...substantial saving is represented in the purchase of the season pass. If a student went to more than six events it would pay him to buy the ticket, as the charge for single admissions will probably be $.50, tax included...
Undergraduate winter sports fans can purchase a $3.00 season ticket to all of the athletic contests to be held at the Indoor Athletic Building for the coming season of 1945-46, the H.A.A. announced today. The cost of the ticket, which includes tax, admits the owner to at least 15 clashes currently scheduled in basketball games, swimming meets, and wrestling matches...
...work at four, left home at 17 to become a sailor, later drove a dogsled and mined gold in Alaska, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico. In 1920, he found himself in Leavenworth Prison for violating the narcotics law. There his cellmate was Herbert Huse Bigelow (in for income-tax evasion), president of B & B. Bigelow liked Ward, told him: "I'm going to remold you; you're made of good clay." When Bigelow was released eight months later, he asked Ward what job he would like with the company when he got out. "Your job, H.H.," said...
...Axis dollar bonds became sadly aware that what they were really holding was the bag. In it were the bonds of five enemy nations with a value of $292,900,000. Actually, said the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, these bonds were worthless, could be written off as such in tax reports; and the SEC banned trading in them...