Word: percent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current rate on all land purchased after July 1, 1928, which otherwise might legally be designated tax exempt. It does not affect the buildings on the land. A second clause limits the amount of land held before this date which the University may annually withdraw from taxation to 10 percent of the total by value. Inasmuch as the University had not been withdrawing land at a rate very much faster than this, the second clause loses most of its significance...
...know, the audience does about fifty percent of the work in an ordinary performance. A good, hearty, infectious laugh out front will put a whole new aspect into the action on the stage. When you know that you have the audience with you the play fairly rolls along. But if the house is feeling glum, then you have to double your efforts and cheer them up--put them in the spirit of the thing. There can be no such close relationship between audience and actor in the talking pictures, and with that relationship most of the fascination of the stage...
Such a step would put a heavy strain on British industry. Legitimate and necessary business borrowing within Great Britain would be regrettably curtailed by so high a rate. When the news flashed from Manhattan that the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank had unexpectedly boosted its rediscount rate a full percent, to 6%, it was clear that something must be said or done...
...about evenly distributed between taxes and interest. About 10% of the whole income goes to various forms of insurance. Inevitably in about 3 years the owner has lost his equity. The reversion of real estate to the banks has made them fail and the politician senses his downfall. Thirty percent of our property is already in the hands of the State. The Mediterranean fly was an excuse to further pauperize the henchmen of the favored politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have an indigent population as fatal to progress as England's "Dole" receivers...
...Methodist attempt to meddle with Medicine brought another tart rebuke last week. The Voice of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...