Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to the Income Tax, the biggest source of Internal Revenue is the tax on tobacco. These collections, steadily increasing, were 64% of all miscellaneous Internal Revenue. Another increasingly productive source of Internal Revenue is documentary stamps. Stock market activity last year boosted sales of stock-transfer stamps to 24 millions, a 41% increase over...
...recently his decisions have concerned the oil industry-an industry which, suffering from overproduction and savage competition now shows signs of straightening out its difficulties. Carefully surveying the oil industry, Mr. Walker discreetly arrived at a conclusion. The result of that conclusion was last week's transfer of some thirty million dollars of Rockefeller holdings in the Prairie
Last week a Ministerial decree announced the imminent transfer of the Luxembourg collection of Impressionist & Post-Impressionist art to the Louvre. For all of the painters the honor was posthumous.* Their long, tempestuous trial at the Luxembourg outlasted their lives. They had tried to paint what they perceived as current realities. Often they were frustrated, tortured in the patient attempts to convey the actualities of their vision. But they believed in an art stimulated by the living, not the dead. For this they were excoriated by a host of pompous academicians, who applauded apes of the classical tradition...
...Mayor Harry A. Mackey who was passive for a while, who scorned the idea that municipal extortionists could exist among the police or elsewhere. But at length he ordered a wholesale transfer of the police force. He compared the reports of new and old incumbents of the precincts. On the basis of later Grand Jury reports he suspended from office almost one half of the executive police officers-three out of five inspectors, 18 out of 43 captains. These men had been found "unfit to hold any position in the municipal government." Their bank accounts revealed "unexplained wealth" amounting...
...Pennsy terminal at Manhattan is also electrified. Steam trains cannot linger underground in the tunnels that Manhattan traffic necessitates. So from Hell Gate, where the Pennsylvania connects with New England lines, to Manhattan Transfer in New Jersey, where steam locomotives replace electric ones for the long Pennsylvania hauls south and west, and to Long Island City where the Pennsy's Long Island trains change from electricity to steam-within all that great triangle electric locomotives haul the cars. For the same reason at Manhattan the New York Central hauls its trains by electricity to Harmon and the New York...