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These men's States, and Pennsylvania, have experimented with gross sales levies upon producers, wholesale houses and the like. Many a State taxes retail sales on specific commodities to obtain funds for specific purposes, viz, the gasoline tax for road maintenance. The Governors of Georgia and West Virginia did not favor a general retail tax, exemplified by existing law in Kentucky. They talked about taxes on gross sales as a means of obtaining almost the entire revenue of a State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Governors' Conference | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...Many an individualistic woman of long ago bobbed her hair, viz., Joan of Arc, Lady Caroline Lamb (one of Byron's friends), George Sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bobbed Hair | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...jump." Thus one more emulation of excuseless Col. Lindbergh failed; the Colonel became, by one degree more, unique. May 20-21 was the third anniversary of Colonel Lindbergh's stimulating, trans-Atlantic flight. This past year he has again added noteworthy items to the scroll of his work, viz: Six trips across the U. S., including the above record; opening two mail routes to South America (Miami-Paramaribo, Miami-Buenos Aires); air explorations of Indian ruins in New Mexico and Arizona, and Mayan ruins in Yucatan; stunt flying with the Navy's high hat squadron at the Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lindbergh Unrivalled | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...Cause. What the effects would be on Prohibition and on Life's circulation (now down to 137,000 its 1919 peak of 255,000) remained be seen. One effect on the magazine editorially was to give point to the Prohibition jokes which Life began publishing with redoubled fervor, viz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Circulation by Alcohol | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...methods of Wrestler Gu's Sonnenberg. It has been especially active recently in routing out stock promoters; it put a quietus on many Boston Curb Exchange operators. Last fortnight it published a bulletin which contained some surprising firms and products which it flayed for offering stock with merchandise, viz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Business | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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