Word: normality
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...entire classical list (old releases as well as new ones) was now on sale at half price. To profit by the change, Columbia plans to sell three times as many classical records as it had sold before. Wallerstein has readied his Bridgeport, Conn, plant for three times its normal production...
...babies did not do as well as the mothers. Although many were fine and healthy the average weight (6 Ib. 14 oz.) was below normal. Two were stillborn, three died at birth, four had deformities...
Choice No. 1 calculates excess-profits as those in excess of a corporation's average yearly earnings (after normal income taxes) from 1936-39. Thus, if a company averaged $100,000 a year in those years, and makes $150,000 in 1940, $50,000 is ascribed to the Defense boom, called "excess." From this is deducted a "specific exemption" (for the benefit of small business) of $5,000, leaving $45,000 subject to the tax. And if the company invests any new capital, it may deduct 8% of its new investment from the $45,000 (regardless of how much...
...conceal the Third Term issue. Dr. C. F. Aked (D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.), of Los Angeles, telegraphed: "I thank God for your noble fight against . . death dealing systems of continental Europe where conscription means both syphilis and slavery." Banker John M. Johnston Jr. of Wayne, Pa. objected to having the normal course of his life interrupted. Said Burt Wheeler, duly impressed: "Democrats who vote for [conscription] before the coming election . . . will be driving nails in their coffins...
...balding Joseph Charles Roven-sky foresaw putting a lot of liberty on the shelf right away. He believed the U. S. would abandon at least temporarily the Hull methods, resort to Hitler's own methods of "barter or compensation trade." The Hull program was "sound in conception under normal conditions," said he, but "it is entirely probable that . . . we . . . shall also adopt trading practices born of expediency...