Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President in press conference suggested that $2,500,000,000 to $3,000,000,000 should be enough for the new contingency fund. Henry Morgenthau, foreseeing that the total will vary, guessed it ought to reach...
...Bone apparently failed to take into account that many States do not allow taxpayers to deduct Federal taxes in figuring their State income tax. Bone, Nye & Co. proposed such wartime tax rates that many top-bracket taxpayers would find their total taxes all but swallowing their net income (but not exceeding it, as newspapers reported last week). In New York, for example (which has a State tax graduated up to 7% plus a 1% emergency tax), a $500,000-a-year man in a war year would have to pay Federal and State income taxes totaling...
...defense, to say nothing of offense. Canada has always relied on both British and U. S. Navies for help. She has less than 300 military airplanes, scores of which are Royal Air Force discards. Her navy consists of only six destroyers, manned by 137 officers, 1,582 men. Her total active militia is 4,034 men. Her coastal defense guns date from before the War, and are so small that enemy battleships could anchor unharmed 30,000 yards off Halifax or Vancouver and demolish either city. Worst of all, Canada has at most two anti-aircraft guns...
...plan is designed to accomplish two purposes: to reduce the number of men who go through all or most of their college life outside the House system; and to increase the total number of undergraduates receiving the benefits of the Houses...
Last week the Department of Agriculture announced that its Commodity Exchange Administration had found that of the 48 accounts operating under the scheme 42 had a closed profit aggregating $18,253 but all 48 had a total unrealized loss of $45,218. The owners of the accounts had been told only of the profitable deals. Indignant denials of fraud followed CEA's setting of hearings for March...