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...basis all proceeds above the initial payment. The Treasury will then keep the dollars, pay Courtaulds their equivalent in pounds. Should a weak market interfere with the sale, the bankers still get a bargain. American Viscose's current assets (including $34,454,594 in cash and marketable securities) exceed current liabilities...
...occupational guilds, through which medical care is administered. There are 20 to 30 such guilds in the country. Largest is the laborers' Caja, with a membership of 1,200,000. Each worker contributes from 3 to 10% of his wages to his Caja every month. Employers match or exceed this payment, and in some cases the Government adds a small percentage. For this fee a worker gets not only medical care but insurance against several or all of the following (according to the rules of his Caja): 1) sickness and invalidism; 2) old age; 3) accidents; 4) maternity...
...Corporations which improved their earnings over the 1936-39 base period will be permitted to compute their exemption by taking the average of 1938 and 1939 incomes, adding to this figure one-half the difference between it and the average for 1936 and 1937 (except that the exemption cannot exceed the amount of income for the best base-period year). Beneficiaries: "growth" companies. Some dopesters estimated that Philip Morris' excess-profits credit would be upped from $5,805,975 to $7,435,766, Pepsi-Cola's from...
...people in the U. S., statisticians estimated that some 45% would be qualified to vote on Nov. 5. From 15 to 20% of these (the bedridden, the nonplussed, the indifferent) probably will not show up at the polls; but indications last week were that the total vote would exceed 1936's record-breaking 45,647,117 by about...
...warned that in Germany "science [had gone] mad in the hands of demon-ridden masses." In Mass Effects in Modern Life he warned that mass production found its political form in the Bolshevik state. In Fifty Years Hence Churchill forecast the rise of fascist states whose power would far exceed the intelligence of their rulers, whose intelligence would far exceed their morals. But he would not write off democracy. Democracy, he insisted, is a function of morality...