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...income tax payments with the normal tax rate temporarily cut 1%. This March, with the normal tax rate restored, receipts of $450,000,000 were anticipated. But as payments were tabulated, Treasury experts found they had underestimated the full depth of hard times, revised their expectations downward to $400,000,000, then to $375,000,000 and finally concluded that the Treasury would be lucky to get $340,000,000. Because about 55% of the Government's revenue comes from income taxes, this loss of more than $200,000,000 was a very serious matter. Commented an anonymous Treas...
...35¢ per bu. above the world level. Until last week the biggest question was: "Will the Board continue price-pegging when the 1931 wheat crop starts rolling in upon the market about July 1?" The answer: "It will NOT." Result: U. S. wheat prices must now adjust themselves downward to the world's supply & demand level. Declared the Board...
...Switzerland, moved out onto the run. It dropped away under his feet so sharply that watchers behind him could not see the whole course; part of it seemed almost perpendicular. On the run the packed icy snow had just enough surface to give Chiogna steering purchase as he shot downward on his special skis-the skis of a fairytale, fantastically long and heavy. Five electric control stations shunted into a 150-metre circuit measured his time. On the long skis Chiogna crouched in the Schneider position invented by Tyroleans who cannot use on their steep slopes the erect position...
Having guessed, the hangman picks out the right sized rope, selects a stool of appropriate height, calls in one or more assistants to give the feet of the condemned a downward jerk after the stool has been kicked away...
...curvature. Snapped in one-fiftieth of a second from an airplane in South America by Captain Albert W. Stevens, U. S. Army photographer, the picture shows a stretch of 300 miles of pampas beyond which rise the Andes. The distant horizon line of the pampas is curved slightly downward at one end. The picture was taken on film made sensitive to red and infra-red rays (not scattered by earth's atmosphere like the shorter wavelengths) by the addition of kryptocyanine, a photo-sensitizing...