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...increase over fiscal 1929. Receipts for fiscal 1937 he set at $5,654,000,000, more revenue than the U. S. Government ever had in any year except 1920. This huge expectation arose from the following estimates: $547,000,000 from the New Deal's social security, railway pension and Coal Act taxes; $547,000,000 from the New Deal's processing taxes;* $354,000,000 from customs; $2,103,000,000 from miscellaneous internal revenue (of which liquor taxes make up one quarter and tobacco taxes almost an equal share); $160,000,000 from minor sources...
...each ear. These strands have been trained to twine like ivy about his polished brow. M. Besson sports a gaudy muffler yards long in winter, and a blue straw hat in summer. His temper is such that he can never see a braided cap, be it on a policeman, railway conductor, doorman or bellboy, without trying to bash...
...before leaving Warm Springs last week President Roosevelt drove down to the railway station to meet his military aide, Lieut. Colonel Edwin Watson, who was to accompany him to Chicago. "Come on, Pa," said the President, welcoming the colonel into his car. They tootled through the Foundation grounds, to the wooded hillside where the Presidential Marine guard was tenting. Pointing, the President said: "There's your tent, Pa. It's been pretty chilly lately but I think you'll be all right with a good army blanket. The stove is a bit rusty but the boys will...
decided to build a Class I railroad out of his own pocket, which was exceedingly well lined with Standard Oil millions. Right through the Panic of 1907 he continued to sink those millions into what is now the Virginian Railway, a 600-mi. line running from deep water at Hampton Roads, Va. through the Pocahontas and New River coal fields to West Deepwater, W. Va. It cost Oilman Rogers between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 and was one of the few railroads financed entirely...
...Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt") Railway announced that on Jan. 1, 1956, it would default on $584,000 then due as interest on bonds. The" Southern Pacific owns about 87% of the "Cotton Belt," in which it has a $20,000,000 investment...