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...people's pockets, whoever they be; he is anxious to put money into the Government's pocket. He believes that decreasing surtaxes is the way to do this, and points with considerable justification to increased Government revenue this year which has followed the reduction of maximum surtaxes from 65% to 50% and the abolition of the excess profits tax. The reason for this, he believes, is less tax evasion either by falsification of returns or by investment in tax-exempt securities, non-productive forms of investment. He is inclined to think that the maximum surtax should...
...combined circulation of Cairo's newspapers is, however, probably not over 180,000 at maximum. No less than seven New York papers and four Chicago papers have each more circulation than the entire newspaper sales of the bejournalized city of the Nile...
...electric freight locomotives will weigh 360 tons, and their sixteen driving axles will develop a normal capacity of 4,000 horsepower, and a maximum of 5,000 for an hour. Their maximum speed will be 45 miles an hour...
...Franklin, President of the International Mercantile Marine Co. (including the White Star, Red Star and American Lines), suggested the maximum quota for each month should be 10% instead of 20% of the annual allowance. This would spread the immigration period over ten instead of five months. There would be no more of such conditions as those of July 31, when ten vessels assembled in Gravesend Bay, waiting for the stroke of midnight, and then dashed across the line, so that eight of them arrived within four minutes. In the narrow channel there was imminent danger of collision. In fact...
...result, 70,000 applications for bonuses have been filed. Thirty thousand of these have been examined. The smallest claim was for four dollars, the largest $816, the average $380. But under the Court rulings a man could make a maximum claim...