Word: interest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side, the utilities argue that the lower rates are a sham. Private companies pay 16 percent taxes while public ones pay six or seven percent in lieu of taxes. Public plants can also obtain finances at a low interest rate from the REA while the private company must go to the money market. This last argument has less significance that it used to because of the fallen interest rate. But these companies insist that the tax differential amounts to a subsidy of the public plants. Their argument is summed up in a caption that appeared under a picture...
...also well represented. The London Spy goes into a lunatic asylum in 1699, and a New York Evening Post reporter reveals shameful prises conditions in 1917; the New York Times does a job a Boss Tweed in 1871, the Washington Post attacks the Colombians in 1946. There is human interest here, too, and sports, and animal stories--all the departments of the newspaper have their representatives...
Kastel & Costello. Long before prohibition was over Rumrunner Costello began transferring his interest and rum profits to safer fields. In 1928 he formed a lasting partnership with Dandy Phil Kastel, a dapper little enterpriser who had whetted 'his wits as manager of a Montreal restaurant and operator of a Manhattan bucket shop. Costello and Kastel formed the Tru-Mint Novelty Corp. and gave the enthusiastic New York public a chance to play slot machines. He told Kastel: "If a guy named Hershey could make all that dough on a 5? candy bar, maybe there's an angle here...
Time for Table-Hopping. It all added up to big business. In addition to Vaughn Monroe Productions Inc. (which covers his tours, records, and radio shows, brought in $1,000,000 last year), he owns or has an interest in a fleet of Boston taxicabs, an office building, a song-publishing house, a moving-picture producing outfit which has just completed a picture starring Vaughn Monroe...
Besides gleaning the fundamentals of newspaper work, news board candidates will discover that a CRIMSON press card gets you in almost anywhere. Personalities ranging from Provost Buck to Georgia Southern are daily probed for reader interest...