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...Taxes Estimated yields (millions of $) Tobacco 188.3 Liquor 177.6 Gasoline 255.0 Soft drinks 132.5 Automobiles 79.9 Amusements (including bowling alleys, cabarets, etc.) 59.4 Checks (20 each) 57.0 Tires and tubes 52.5 Telephone and telegraph 69.0 Transportation tickets 37.6 Miscellaneous...
American Telephone & Telegraph consolidated earnings for the first quarter (ending Feb. 28) jumped to $63,165,413-22% over 1940. This was $3.38 a share, but stockholders (whose dividend stays $9 in good times and bad) were cautioned that costs may soon overtake rising profits...
Circulation. Reader losses have been slight. The Times and Daily Telegraph ration circulation by insisting that readers register in advance with local newsstands, thereby eliminating "returns...
...Labor Board to serve much the same purpose. It had no more authority than the present board. President Wilson backed it up with a threat to take over recalcitrant companies, withdraw draft exemptions from stubborn workers. In two instances the U. S. Government actually took over corporations (the telegraph companies, Smith & Wesson). On one occasion Wilson sent the organized machinists of Bridgeport scuttling back to their jobs with Wilsonian words that Mr. Roosevelt may have pondered: "I desire that you return to work. ... If you refuse, each of you will be barred from employment in any war industry...
Another technicolor saga of nineteenth century industrialism bites the dust at the U.T. this week. After the Pony Express and the first railroad had made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...