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...only outright excise repeal the Ad ministration had in mind was the 3% tax on freight transportation and the 20% tax on baby oils, powders and lotions. A few other items came in for varying cuts: plane, bus and train tickets (from 15% to 10%), long distance telephone and telegraph tolls (25% to 15%), furs, luggage, jewelry and cosmetics (20% to 10%). The tax would stay on such items as movie tickets, sport goods and autos-and the 10% tax on radio would be extended to television sets as well...
...awards, for research in the physical sciences, grant $3,000 to the recipient and $1,500 to the institution at which he chooses to do his research. They were established by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1944. Since then a seven-man Bell committee has awarded 33 fellowships...
...awards, for research in the physical sciences, grant $3,000 to the recipient and 81,500 to the institution at which he chooses to do his research. They were established by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1944. Since then a seven-man Bell committee has awarded 33 fellowships...
...Earlier in the week Cripps announced that the dollar deficit had been reduced, and the London Daily Telegraph made one of the worst puns in years: "There is no truth . . . in the rumor that when Sir Stafford Cripps preaches in St. Paul's he will wear a surplus...
...fact-minded Walter Gifford never placed any reliance on fool's luck. He probed into Western Electric's rule-of-thumb business methods, impressed his bosses by outlining new accounting and manufacturing ideas on easily understood charts. When American Telephone & Telegraph Co., owner of Western Electric, wanted to expand in 1908, President Theodore N. Vail put Gifford in charge of evaluating the companies which were later incorporated into the Bell System. For his crack job, Gifford was made chief statistician of A.T. & T. in 1911 at $7,000 a year. After that he rose through the company with...