Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think that this was the principal deterrent to business today. Yet it is a simple fact that out of $1,100,-000,000 paid to the Federal Government by corporations, less than $20,000,000 conies to the Government from the undistributed earnings tax-less than 2% of the total. . . . I am wholly willing to have this $20,000,000 tax . .. repealed on two simple conditions, which are based on principle. . . ." (The two: raise it from the big corporations, find another substitute for taxing private holding companies...
...optimists from the start, Milo Perkins & colleagues were moderately pleased by the early showing in Rochester. Of the 8,600 local Reliefers who received their checks, 3,900 had purchased stamps during the first three days. Total cost to them (for orange stamps): $29,026 to which the U. S. added $14,513 for blue stamps. After the first rush, stamp sales noticeably slackened, and Relief officials concluded that many of their clients would require much "education" before they would give up regular money for pretty pieces of paper. One in four of Rochester's WPAsters volunteered to accept...
...British plan calls for: 1) a permanently Arab-dominated State with a frozen Arab majority of two to one; 2) restriction of Jewish immigration for the next five years to 75,000, bringing the total Jewish population to approximately 525,000 (Arab population, 990,000); 3) restrictions on the sale of land to Jews; 4) an independent Palestine with guarantees for the Jewish minority, following a ten-year period of increasing self-government...
...Whose total attendance, 20 days after opening, passed San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair...
...figures not made public). Since last year when the Government convicted a batch of the major oil companies under the Sherman Act, fear of further anti-trust suits has kept oilmen from attempting to do anything about relieving the market of distress gasoline stocks, which have reached an unwieldy total. Refiners now get an average of .7 cents a gallon less than they did last year. Crude production, however, has been kept within reasonable bounds by State proration laws and the official price is comparatively high. Consequently, the spread between the prices of crude oil and of gasoline...