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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kinds of taxes, but only 16 types, which the Republicans had multiplied by applying them individually at each step in the process of making and selling a loaf of bread. Thus a Federal income tax paid by farmer, grain elevator, flour mill, railroad, flour trucker, baking company and retail distributor counted as seven taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only 13 of the 58 taxes were Federal. The rest were state, county, local or municipal.* Of the 16 kinds of taxes, only three were Federal: On income, on capital stock and on excess profits. These three, the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes & Truth | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Both Gar Wood Industries and Gar Wood's expensive motorboat hobby date from 1911 when Gar Wood, then an automobile distributor in Duluth, Minn., thoughtfully observed a big truck being dumped by a hand crank. Setting to work, he invented a hydraulic hoist to dump trucks by power, founded a company to make it. His invention made him rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wood Workers | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Degree for Distributor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1936 | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...exaggeration. Samuel Insull receives $21,000 per year in pensions from his old Chicago operating companies. *Similar discrepancies exist in the prices of old securities and reorganization securities of Baldwin Locomotive and Burns Bros., big Eastern Coal distributor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Insull & Pennies | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

While the big bottle company was going into the can business, the bottle industry was being attacked on another front. Last week Borden Co., big milk distributor, announced that milk sold to 200 stores of American Stores Co. in northern New Jersey would be packaged in Pure-Pak, a container made of spruce-fibre lined with paraffin. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea stores were also said to be interested in Pure-Pak milk. Milk bottles cost between 4? and 5? but make 20 trips at an average cost of about ^ a trip. The paper con- tainer costs from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Glass Week | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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