Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when heated, it sizzled and foamed instead of popping and spattering. The only difference (besides its cheaper price) was its color. The dairy lobby had persuaded most states to forbid or restrict the sale of colored oleo; it had prodded Congress in 1902 to impose a 10?-a-pound tax on the colored product...
Congressmen from the big cities had fought the tax without success. But they got potent allies when oleo manufacturers began making their product from the oils of cottonseed and soybeans-raised in the southern and midwestern states. By the time South Carolina's Congressman L. Mendel Rivers introduced his bill for tax repeal, margarine had become as politically explosive as plutonium...
Then, in August, Great Britain slapped the 75% ad valorem tax on all U.S. films. The Loew-supported bottom fell out of Screen Plays, Inc. That night, trying to drown their sorrows in gin, the partners succeeded in refloating their enterprise on a tipsy wave of optimism. In four days of desperate rewriting, Screen Plays, Inc. shelled $339,000 off the picture's "nut," without sacrificing the essentials of the story. Loew agreed to stay in. In September, So This Is New York finally went into production-and came out $30,000 under the final budget. Even silent Stan...
...another ex-convict. This time it was a ruddy, amiable lawyer (once suspended) named Charles H. McGlue, who had been a Curley campaign manager, state Democratic chairman and head of the state Ballot Law Commission, which irons out ballot disputes. In 1939, McGlue had been convicted of federal income-tax evasion, spent five months in jail. Curley decided that McGlue was just the man to be assistant chief of the city's licensing division (at a modest...
...restrictions. Britons, the chief support of the Casino before the war, now came rarely, gambled little. (The heavy-betting Nazis had supported the Casino during the war.) And well-heeled black marketeers steered clear of the gaming tables; the French collectors keep a close watch on them to spot tax dodgers...