Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slops at upstairs windows, 70,000 embattled striking families are currently prepared to fight eviction. In the case of tenancies covered by the Rent Acts, passed during the War to prevent profiteering, the strikers sometimes have a good legal case and have even recovered back rent paid in excess of the law. More often the strike is completely illegal, but that does not make the landlords much happier. Last month when 83 police smashed through a strikers' barricade in Stepney, East End London borough, and evicted five families, Tenant Defence detachments promptly reinstated them. Boasts Father John Groser, Church...
...abolish the undistributed profits tax, substituting a flat 18% corporate income tax on earnings over $25,000; 2) permit a two-year carryover of profits & losses and remove the $2,000 loss limit for corporations; 3) permit corporations to revalue upward their securities for two years, to ease their excess profits taxes; 4) permit retirement of bonds and notes below par without taxation. > (In Appropriations Committee) rejected President Roosevelt's and Admiral Byrd's request for a $340,000 claiming expedition to Antarctica. > Rejected a Senate bill authorizing TVA to sell $100,000,000 of bonds...
...Capital stock and excess profits taxes. (Under existing law a corporation declares, i.e., guesses at, the value of its capital stock every three years. If its profits amount to more than 10% of the declared value, which may be anything, taxes may be "inordinately high...
...study of the whole tax problem by a joint committee of the House Ways & Means and Appropriations and the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee members, with special attention to the present law which provides that corporation excess of capital losses can be deducted only to the extent of $2,000 plus capital gains...
...install central heating systems, common in U. S. homes. Throughout the long, cold winters they shivered, exercised, ate heavily to generate their own body heat. But recently Denmark acquired hot-air furnaces and steam radiators. Result: the Danes, still eating heavily, lounge comfortably in their warm rooms, convert the excess food into fat instead of heat...