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Quick sales and small profits, outdoor market, La Union, Salvador, C.A.

Quick sales and small profits, outdoor market, La Union, Salvador, C.A...

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Wash. D.C. Dollar Line heard from. Stanley Dollar, ship owner, testifies before the Senate Lobby Committee that he never objected to any Senator or Congressman about the Ship-Subsidy bill which intends to limit profits. 8/24/35

Wash. D.C. Dollar Line heard from. Stanley Dollar, ship owner, testifi...

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Large scale farming with tractors means greater profits on the Bois d'Arc cooperative. Osage Farms, Missouri

Large scale farming with tractors means greater profits on the Bois d'...

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Barney Baruch. Barnard M. Barush, testifying before the House Military Affairs Committee on war profits, takes his time answering questions. 1/25/35

Barney Baruch. Barnard M. Barush, testifying before the House Military...

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Senate finance committee chairman outlines congressional drive for tax reduction. Washington, D.C., Nov. 16. Holding his first press conference since start of special session, Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee today outlined to newsmen his views regarding revision of the undistributed profits, probably next year, and said he hoped that congress would stand firmly for reduction of Emergency Relief Expenditures, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, Harrison will naturally step into leadership of the Congressional Drive for Governmental Retrenchment and tax reduction. 11/16/37

Senate finance committee chairman outlines congressional drive for tax...

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Whispers Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Senator James J. Davis (left), Republican of Pennsylvania, gets another earful from Bernard Baruch following the noted Financier's blaming of the new deal policies for present unemployment before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today. Baruch particularly criticized the present undistributed profits and capital gains taxes, 2/28/38

Whispers Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Senator James J. Davis (left), Rep...

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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a scul...

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[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Daniel C. Roper, T.S. Adams; 2nd Row: E.T. Meredith, Wallace D. Simmimns, Stuart W. Crammer, J.E. Sterrett, S.R. Beetra]

[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Da...

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Nation must make choice--Bernard Baruch Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, Bernard Baruch, noted Financier, declared that the nation must choose between the "profits system and the hope of gain" and "the new European ideas of state regulation and fear of punishment". He added "that if it became clear tomorrow that Americans definitely chosen her traditional profits system, forces would be released that would rapidly hasten recovery and reemployment," 2/28/38

Nation must make choice--Bernard Baruch Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. App...

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Del Monte profits from apartheid

Del Monte profits from apartheid

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Turkmenian collective farmers receivng part of their yearly income from the profits of the farm in the farm administration office in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Turkmenian collective farmers receivng part of their yearly income fro...

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Seeks method to prevent defrauding of public by so-called commodity counselors. Washington, D.C., Aug. 1. Presiding at a meeting of representatives of six major commodity exchanges with Department of Agriculture officials today, Assistant Secretary Harry L. Brown laid before the group recommendations of Secretary Wallace on methods of preventing so-called commodity counselors from defrauding the public through promises of extra-ordinary profits, 7/1/38

Seeks method to prevent defrauding of public by so-called commodity co...

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Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted he...

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Houses belonging to a Mormon farmer in Mendon, Utah. The new house was built with profits from his farm

Houses belonging to a Mormon farmer in Mendon, Utah. The new house was...

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[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Daniel C. Roper, T.S. Adams; 2nd Row: E.T. Meredith, Wallace D. Simmimns, Stuart W. Crammer, J.E. Sterrett, S.R. Beetra]

[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Da...

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Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large scale-corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide the profits. Most of them are from Oklahoma and Texas. They get to where the land wouldn't make them anything so they left and came out here. Many were on Work Projects Administration

Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large sca...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop of tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois, where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Formerly a sculptress and desig...

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[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Daniel C. Roper, T.S. Adams; 2nd Row: E.T. Meredith, Wallace D. Simmimns, Stuart W. Crammer, J.E. Sterrett, S.R. Beetra]

[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Da...

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In addition to the cooperative profits and wages he receives, Jerry Vardiman has a good house. Osage Farms, Missouri

In addition to the cooperative profits and wages he receives, Jerry Va...

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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a scul...

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Group at the Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon Ga. This is one of the mills of the Bibb Mfg. Co., See label on photo 538 for profits made. Jan. 19,1909. Location: Macon, Georgia.

Group at the Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon Ga. This is one of the mills of th...

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Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted he...

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Manufacturers group asks removal of taxes to stimulate recovery of business. Washington, D.C., June 3. Noel Sargent of New York, representing the National Association of Manufacturers, presented an 8 point program of tax revision to the House Ways and Means Committee today. The association asked the removal of the undistributed profits, capital stock, and excess profits taxes to put private enterprise into a movement to stimulate recovery. He presented the program as the association's answer to Treasury Secretary Morgenthau's statement that 'the basic need today is to foster the full application of the driving force of private capital.' Left to right: John Hanes, Undersecretary of the Treasury, who attended the committee meeting, and Sargent

Manufacturers group asks removal of taxes to stimulate recovery of bus...

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Immediate legislation needed to take profits out of war, Legion commander tells House committee. Washington D.C. Testifying before the House Military Affairs Committee today, National Commander Harty Colmery, of the American Legion, declared that the European situation had caused a "very definate" public demand for legislation to "take the profits out of war" appearing as the first witness in the Sheppard-Hill bill hearings providing for industrial mobilization and powers for the President to fix price ceilings during war periods, Colmery asserted that the measure would be a powerful deterrent to war

Immediate legislation needed to take profits out of war, Legion comman...

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[Cuba and the U.S. sugar trust profits]

[Cuba and the U.S. sugar trust profits]

Cartoon shows a man "Cuba" lying on the ground tied with ropes "Platt Amendment" and "Dutch Standard [paragraph] 209." The head of the American Sugar Refining Company Henry Osborne Havemeyer, surrounded by bags... More

Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Daniel C. Roper, T.S. Adams; 2nd Row: E.T. Meredith, Wallace D. Simmimns, Stuart W. Crammer, J.E. Sterrett, S.R. Beetram

Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Dan...

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Profit sharing systems gives business 'pick' of labor senate told. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Profit sharing systems enabled corporations to obtain the 'pick' of labor, F.J. Moss, president of a Kansas City Sash and Door Co. today told a Senate Finance Subcommittee. He gave as his opinion that industrial peace will not be obtainable until a method is found by which labor can share in the profits

Profit sharing systems gives business 'pick' of labor senate told. Was...

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In spotlight as house committee considers tax revision. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. Lovell Parker, (right) tax expert of the Treasury, appeared before the House Ways and Means Sub-Committee today as it began consideration of a general revision of the Federal Revenue Structure. Parker is shown talking to Rep. Frank H. Buck of California, a member of the committee who reported today that he has found wide-spread opposition to the revision of the undistributed profits tax, chiefly because it prevents new corporations from organizing, hampers expansion by old ones, and fail to provide an exemption cushion for those suffering from debt. 11/4/37

In spotlight as house committee considers tax revision. Washington, D....

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Farmers putting in time slips at end of day. Deshee Unit, Wabash Farms, Indiana. All the land here is farmed cooperatively and profits are distributed according to amount of work done

Farmers putting in time slips at end of day. Deshee Unit, Wabash Farms...

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Issued by Woollen and Dunlop. Amateur journalism! An institution for the youth of the land. Its aims, pleasures and intellectual profits fully set forth- how to become an amateur some of its distinguished graduates, and advocates- names of some

Issued by Woollen and Dunlop. Amateur journalism! An institution for t...

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Commodity Exchange Heads seek method to prevent defrauding of public commodities. Washington, D.C., Aug. 1. Representatives of six major commodity exchanges today conferred with Department of Agriculture officials on methods of preventing so-called commodity counselors from defrauding the public through promises of extra-ordinary profits. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Harry L. Brown is pictured as he laid before the group recommendations of Secretary Wallace for "vigorous action" to discourage brokerage houses from accepting business from certain types of commodity counselors. On the right of Mr. Brown is Dr. J.W.T. Duvel, Chief of the Commodity Exchange Administration. Represented at the meeting were the Chicago Board of Trade, New York Cotton Exchange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, New York Wool Tops Exchange, and the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, 8/1/38

Commodity Exchange Heads seek method to prevent defrauding of public c...

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Small purchasing power of workers cause of business recession. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. Testifying before the Senate Committee studying unemployment, Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Workers, today said it was his impression that the present business situation has resulted from the inadequate purchasing power of workers. He added, this was caused by business taking so much out of the profits that the distribution among workers is affected, 1/7/38

Small purchasing power of workers cause of business recession. Washing...

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November 20, 1778, Nansemond, Upper Parish, for permission to sell glebe and apply profits to use of parish.

November 20, 1778, Nansemond, Upper Parish, for permission to sell gle...

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Meeting of commission to study methods of removing profits from war. The commission, recently created by Congress, to study methods fro removing profits from war, and for effecting an equitable distribution of the burdens of war, held its first meeting today in the office of the Secretary of War, Patrick J. Hurley. Secretary Hurley was elected chairman; Senator Davis A. Reed, Vice Chairman; and Rep. Lindley H.Hadley, Secretary. In the photograph, left to right: Rep. John J. McSwain, South Carolina; Rep. William P. Holaday, Illinois; Rep. Lindley H. Hadley, Washington; Secretary of War, Patrick J. Hurley; Senator Claude A. Swanson, Virginia; Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas; and Rep. Ross A. Collins, Mississippi

Meeting of commission to study methods of removing profits from war. T...

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Preparedness is best to keep out of war. Washington D.C. Representative Lister Hill (left), Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the House is shown talking to Bernard M. Baruch a New York financier who testified before the Committee today. He stated that the cash on the line was one of the best methods to take the profits out of war and to widen the scope of the 95% taxation on incomes during the war period

Preparedness is best to keep out of war. Washington D.C. Representativ...

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Treasury aide suggests retention of undistributed profits tax. Washington, D.C., March 22. Appearing before the Senate Finance Committee today, Undersecretary of the Treasury Roswell Magill suggested retention of the undistributed profits tax in the new revenue bill and strongly recommend elimination of tax exemption for government securities. At the same time he informed the committee of the treasury's views on the tax revision bill, designed to provide $5,330,000,000 in federal revenue. Magill is pictured talking to Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman of the Committee; and Senator Arthur M. Vandenberg, Republican member of the committee

Treasury aide suggests retention of undistributed profits tax. Washing...

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Says profits should be distributed in pay envelopes. Washington, D.C., Dec. 7. H.J. Tily, president of the Strawbridge and Clothier Co., of Philadelphia, who told the Senate Committee Investigating Profit Sharing that the only practical system of profit sharing lay in 'a fat pay envelope.' He attacked federal tax systems saying that government costs are hurting and killing business. He later remarked that the Republican party had a few honest members, to which Senator Arthur Vandenberg retorted, 'That is shown by the Pennsylvania election returns'

Says profits should be distributed in pay envelopes. Washington, D.C.,...

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Says profits should be distributed in pay envelopes. Washington, D.C., Dec. 7. H.J. Tily, president of the Strawbridge and Clothier Co., of Philadelphia, who told the Senate Committee Investigating Profit Sharing that the only practical system of profit sharing lay in 'a fat pay envelope.' He attacked federal tax systems saying that government costs are hurting and killing business. He later remarked that the Republican party had a few honest members, to which Senator Arthur Vandenberg retorted, 'That is shown by the Pennsylvania election returns'

Says profits should be distributed in pay envelopes. Washington, D.C.,...

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[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Daniel C. Roper, T.S. Adams; 2nd Row: E.T. Meredith, Wallace D. Simmimns, Stuart W. Crammer, J.E. Sterrett, S.R. Beetra]

[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Da...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop of tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois, where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Formerly a sculptress and desig...

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On war profits. Secretary of War Dern, left, appears before the House Military Affairs Committee to give testimony on the McSwain Take-the-Profits-Out-of-War resolution. From the left: Sec. Dern; Rep. John J. McSwain, D. of S.C., chairman, and Assistant Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring. 1/28/35

On war profits. Secretary of War Dern, left, appears before the House ...

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Commerce Secretary addresses American Retail Federation. Washington, D.C., May 22. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, right, pictured with Dr. David R. Craig, President of the American Retail Federation today at the Mayflower Hotel addressing members of the federation, Secretary Hopkins said that there must be no compromise with the underlying principles of the New Deal's social and economic reforms. At the same time, he told the businessmen that administration recognizes the necessity of fair business profits as an essential basis for increasing employment and private investment

Commerce Secretary addresses American Retail Federation. Washington, D...

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Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a scul...

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November 20, 1778, Nansemond, Upper Parish, for permission to sell glebe and apply profits to use of parish.

November 20, 1778, Nansemond, Upper Parish, for permission to sell gle...

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[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Daniel C. Roper, T.S. Adams; 2nd Row: E.T. Meredith, Wallace D. Simmimns, Stuart W. Crammer, J.E. Sterrett, S.R. Beetra]

[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Honorable C. Hull, Da...

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Chairman of Senate Finance Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 16 Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee pictured at his press conference today when he outlined to reporters his views regarding revision of the undistributed Profits Tax, probably early next year, and said he hoped that Congress would stand firmly for reduction of emergency relief expenditures, 11/16/37

Chairman of Senate Finance Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 16 Chairm...

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Farm Security Administration Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide profits. Children in this group came from eight different states

Farm Security Administration Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale...

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Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide profits. Children in group came from eight different states

Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale corporate farming by sixty-t...

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November 20, 1778, Nansemond, Upper Parish, for permission to sell glebe and apply profits to use of parish.

November 20, 1778, Nansemond, Upper Parish, for permission to sell gle...

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