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...Legal beer helped boost the net profit of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., which has a machine to make 240 bottles a minute, to $4.208.000 for the year ended June 30, 1933. Beer bottle sales were beginning to stabilize when Repeal opened up the demand for wine and liquor bottles which are not regularly refilled. Owens-Illinois' net profit for the year ended June 30, 1934 was up nearly...
...negligible demand from business for long term financing?due to the Securities Act and general fear that the New Deal will limit profits, regulate business, boost costs, compete with established industry...
...last week the delegates of 21 nations at the World Wheat Conference in London had talked themselves dry. Most of them wanted arbitrarily to boost the export price of wheat 10%. Leaders of this faction were three great wheat-sellers: Canada, Australia and the U. S. Drought in those lands had reduced the wheat crop, already boosted the price. Last August's Conference had given them such adequate export quotas for the current year (Canada: 200,000,000 bu.; Australia: 105,000,000; the U. S.: 47,000,000) that they were willing to give up part of them...
...giving Loughlin support Franny Gleason deserves the biggest boost. All year Gleason has been amazing the fans by his miraculous running catches out in left field. On Saturday he reached his peak by grabbing a tons fly just as it came shifting through the branches of a tree that obstructed the far side of the pasture. Then, too, Hraman Gibbs had to take a nose dive under the score
...income (after personal exemptions) of more than $4,000 and grade up to 59% on incomes over $1,000,000. (Old law: surtaxes began at 1% on net income exceeding $6,000 and graded up to 55% on incomes over $1,000,000.) Effect of these changes is to boost taxes on income from dividends which are exempt from the normal tax but not from surtaxes. The surtax brackets are arranged to scale up more steeply so that men with incomes between $25,000 and $1,000,000 will pay more. Increased revenue from normal and surtax changes...