Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gaullist agents in the top balconies showered pamphlets on the crowd. From the prizefighting ring which served as a speaker's platform, Leon Gingembre said: "This super-fiscality will kill our economy by braking production. ... If you can't pay your taxes, send your tax forms back to your deputy and ask him to get you out of the mess he got you into...
...A.M.A.'s Journal promised that an editorial denouncing kickbacks to doctors would appear in next week's issue. A warning also came from Los Angeles' Collector of Internal Revenue Harry C. Westover; he said that he would see whether doctors had reported their rebates to the tax collector...
...panic had various causes: the new British tax (TIME, Aug. 18), a big "Boo!" from Congressman J. Parnell Thomas-Red-hunting committee-and a 15% drop in box office. One reason so few pictures were being made was because Hollywood was not sure of the kind of pictures to make, except that they had to be cheaper. And with the box-office drop-which cut down the long wartime runs of pictures-there had to be more of them, probably...
Nevertheless, there was hope that things were not so dark as Hollywood thought. Last week Britain was still trying to work out a deal to modify the effects of the tax, lest it wreck Britain's own theater business and seriously weaken Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's empire just when he has a chance to earn some badly needed dollars (TIME, Dec. 21). And no matter how Hollywood feared the bark of pressure groups, the bite had not yet proved painful. Among the two big moneymakers of 1947, according to Variety, were David O. Selznick's Duel...
...moviemakers had their troubles last year. First, Britain's 75% tax on all U.S. movies promised to cut Hollywood's income by about 25%. Then came the bad publicity from two congressional investigations (of Howard Hughes and of Hollywood Reds). Finally the national box office took a couple of slumps...