TAX RATES ON INCOMES OF $3,000 OR LESS An individual with a gross income of $3,000 or less, may elect to pay the tax shown below The above rates are available if the gross income is $3,000 or less and consists wholly of one or more of the following: Salary, wages, compensation for personal services, dividends, interest, rent, annuities, or royalties. Corporation United States Income Tax Returns Source: The United States Bureau of Internal Revenue Returns by Industrial Groups Gross income (net income in parentheses), mining and quarrying, $1,712,464,000 ($250,590,000); manufacturing. $49.983,326,000 ($3.948,328,000); public utilities, $9,132,441.000 ($1,523,801,000); trade (wholesale), $16,559,117,000 ($397,773,000); trade (retail), $15,195,932,000 (3526,902,000). Trade not allocable, $2,744,969,000 ($106,597,000); service, $2,265.445,000 ($179,973,000); finance, insurance, real estate and leasors of real property, $5,900,267,000 ($1,776.154,000); construction, $1,470,281,000 ($70,244,000); agriculture, forestry, and fishery, $419,972,000 ($40,461,000). U. S. Customs and Internal Revenue Receipts, by Years Year Internal (Fiscal) Customs Revenue Source: The United States Treasury Year Dollars 512,723,288 1929. Dollars Dollars Dollars 1880... 186,522,065 123.981,916 1916... 213,185,846] 1890.. 229,668,585 142,594,696 | 1917.. 225,962,393 809,393,640 1930.. 1900.. 233,164,871 295,316,107 1918.. 179,998,383 3,698,955,8211931.. 1905.. 261,798,857 234,187,970 1919.. 1906.. 300,251,878 249,102,738 |1920.. 1907.. 332,233.363 269,664,023 1921. 1908... 286.113,130 1909... 300,711,934| 1910.. 333,683,445 251,665,9501922.. Dollars Dollars 602,262,786 2,939,054,375 587,000,903 3,040,145,733 378,340,663 2,428,228,754 327,752,291 1,557,729,043 250,747,992 1,619,839,224 313,434.302 2,672.239,194 343,353,034 3,299,435,572 386,811,594 3.520,208,381 486,356,599 4,653.195,315 359,187,249 5,658,765,314 318,837 311 5.181,573.952 350,851,573 5,340,452,346 392,233,153 7,370,108,377 184,457,867|3,850,150,078 1932.. 322,902,650 5,407,580,252 1933.. [308,564,391 4,595,357,062 1934. 356,443,387 3,197,451,083 1935.. 561.928,867 2,621,745,227 1936. 545.637,504 2.796.179,257 1937. 547,561,000 2,584,140,2681938. 579,430,093 2,835,999,892 1939. 605,499,983 2,865,683,130 1940. 568,986,188 2.790,535,538||1941 Figures showing internal revenue receipts since 1934 include Agricultural Adjustment tax collections(1934) $371,422,886; (1935) $526,222,358; (1936) $71,637,207. Туре Total Income Payments in U. S. by Years and Types Net Salaries & wages. Other labor income Source: United States Department of Commerce (Figures show millions of dollars) 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 82,232 74,554 63,463 49,207 46,717 53,874 58,618 67,988 72,162 66,433 70,779 75,512 52,093 47,232 39,680 30.726 28,316 32,238 35,172 39,441 44.010 40,515 43,726 47:463 1,026 1,121 2,241 1,737 2,301 3,203 3.518 5,351 3,754 4,793 4,601 4,609 13,927 11,836 9,259 7,154 7,562 9,082 10,230 11,616 12,556 11,219 11,830 12,313 15,181 14,365 12,283 9,590 8,508 9,351 9,698 11,580 11,842 9,906 10,622/11,127 TOTAL INCOME PAYMENTS IN UNITED STATES BY STATES States Alabama. Arizona. Arkansas. California. Colorado. 741 606 736 805 781 693 757 873 904 871 922 1,006 165 186 220 245 220 234 248 6,777 5,826 4,764 3,541 3,333 3,783 4,125 4,841 5,205 4,701 5,098 5,462 1,901 1,655 1,383 1,039 1,023 1,224 1,351 1,628 1,764 1,576 1,735 1,890 1,307 1,292 1,019) 683 717 817 929 1,111 1,101 1,080 1,140 1,197 956 895 737 520 524 6131 666 763 812 966 832 693 566 521 644 7135 850 747 654 515 488 586 635 453 4451 394 313 304 330 360 416 386 410 428 1,137 1,088) 968 787 737 830 885 1,012 1,097 1,021 1,105 1,208 3,728 3,507 3,181 2,612 2,387 2,586 2,740 3,051 3.145 2,895 3,071 3,271 3,628 3,054 2,508 1,895 1,672 2,166 2,499 2,963 3.339 2,776 3,124 3,466 1,456 1,380 1,191 New Mexico. New York North Carolina. North Dakota.. Ohlo Oklahoma. Oregon Rhode Island. South Carolina. South Dakota. Tennessee. Texas.. 85 96 106 269 256 266 275 300 282 258 203 199 3,231 3,091 2,736 2,197 1,977 2,176 2,317 2,620 2,857 2,618 2.784 3,011 149 138 122 89 96 126 137 164 177 166 174 190 14,178 13,382 11,586 9,107 8,428 9,272 9,814 11,023 11,402 10,638 11,025 11,543 997 836) 722 596 642 827 1,068 858 123 876 989 1,060 1,020 1,104 1,136 293 247 173 146 165 187 215 229 205 226| 217 4,910 4,322 3,632 2,696 2,614 3,091 3,425 4,050 4,393 3,824 4,177 4,453 720 531 548 613 681 768 844 778 794 828 620 544 461 354 340 396 462 559 599 566 601 629 7,250 6,684 5,648 4,275 4,000 4,592 4,937 5,711 6.029 5,349 5,779 6,185 574 530 482 392 362 389 421 468 490 447 478 521 469 389 333 277 296 377 403 468 504 481 509 534 300 291 239 132 152 182 197 236 218 220 238 248 922 775 639 519 714 831 871 820 876 949 2,636 2,275 1,884 1,540 1,543 1,809 1,961 2,270 2,568 2,468 2,615 2.715 281 258 211 157 1561 179 204 234 258 245 250 268 137 1261 142 154 176 177 163 174 195 674 627 755 824 952 997 958 1,034 1,135 625 6101 714 791 967 1,015 977 1,041 1,101 474 465 580 617 724 760 694 725 764 1,903 1,677 1,382 1,051 1,003 1,149 1,313 1,539 1,639 1,498 1,571 1,690 159 1471 1281 931 961 114 127 1471 149 1401 155 162 World's Record Fish Caught by Any Method Source: Field and Stream and the American Museum of Natural History 0Avalon, Cal. Nant'ket, Mass. Name of Fish Yr. Lbs. Ozs. Where Caught 0 So. Africa Name of Fish 0 0 Catish, Miss. 1878 150 Fla. Brown. 1932 40 Drum, Black. 146 0 Flounder, Sum.. Noank, Conn. Tautog (Blackfish) 1876 Muskalonge. 1934 Salmon, Atlantic.. 1901 103 2 1935 124 12 Oahu, Hawall N. J. Coast Florida, in net Salmon, Chinook 1939) 125 0 Petersburg, Ala. Fisheries of the United States and Alaska Source: United States Bureau of Fisheries. 131,325 5,413 (112,905) 4,443,328,000 96,532,000 (25,421,000) Figures in parentheses show fishing vessels tonnage; and, in value column, indicate value of shellfish. Position of the Center of Population, 1790 to 1940 016 miles east of Moorefield, W. Va..... 0 23 miles southeast of Parkersburg, W. Va.. 15 1.9 miles west of Whitehall, Owen County, Ind. 44.1 42.1 13.3 Since 1790 the center of population has moved 602 miles. The term "center of population," as used by the Census Bureau, is that point which may be considered as the center of gravity of the United States. In other words, the point upon which the United States would balance, if it were a rigid plane without weight and the population distributed thereon, with each individual being assumed to have equal weight and to exert an influence on a central point proportional to his distance from the point. Catholics: Roman Protestants. 47,056,724 60,836,143 203,944,823 112,447,669 Total.. Jews. Mohammedans.. Others.. 87,263,348 61,493,624 398,159,546 Total... Grand total... Asia Africa Oceania Total 338,385,939 127,629,986 9,213,413 6,866,072 10,468,764 8,106,071 5,868,089 4,422,777 2,782,864 6,372,250 21,742,261 15,517,025 1,684,014 572,930 542,869 266,958 138,299,144 55,538,211 21,467,868 220,978,848 956,607,018 76,301,961 46,868,506 1,318,914.254 83,431,689 22,161,561 153,026,476 1,095,479,092 132,383,041 68,603,332 1,555,085,191 170,695,037 83,655,185 551,186,022 1,117,221,353 147,900,066 70,287,346 2,140,945,009 Orthodox (Eastern) Catholics includes Russian, Greek, Albanian, Bulgarian, Rumanian, Serbian, Syrian, Armenian and Coptic Catholics. Roman Catholics include also Polish Catholics and Old Catholic Churches. Jews include Jews by race not necessarily by religion. Others includes Philosophic and heathen religions, unchurched, unclassified and unknown. Fly Lights Itself Fore and Aft, Eats Spiders A fly that spins a web for catching spiders and other insects was described (Dec. 28, 1940) before the meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Philadelphia by Dr. B. B. Fulton, of North Carolina State College. The fly, strangely enough, plays its spider-like role only when it is still in the larva stage, when it looks very much like a small worm. At that time the larva devours small spiders and other prey caught in its Democratic National Committee (Headquarters, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C.) Chairman, Edward J Flynn, Washington, D. C.; Treasurer, Richard J. Reynolds; Publicity Director, Charles Michelson; Sergeant-at-Arms, Edwin A. Halsey Alabama. Arizona Arkansas. California. Colorado. Georgia.. Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana Maine. Maryland. Michigan. Missouri.. Marion Rushton, Montgomery. Walter G. Riddick Little Rock. F. Harold Dubord, Waterville. Massachusetts. James M. Curley, Jamaica Plains. Nebraska. Nevada. New. 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Quealy, Kemmerer Mrs. Bertha Perrine, Anchorage Mrs. L. O. Keen, Balboa Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Washington, D. Cˇ Socialist Party National Executive Committee (Headquarters, 303 Fourth Ave., New National Chairman, Norman Thomas, 20 Gramercy Park, N. Y. City; National Vice Chairman, David H. H. Felix, 1416 So. Penn Sq.. Philadelphia, Pa.; National Secretary, Travers Clement, 303 Fourth Ave., N. Y. City; Administrative Secretary, Robert Parker, 303 Fourth Ave., N. Y. City; Frank McCallister, 313 Palmer Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.; Jeffrey W. Campbell, c/o Socialist Party, 30 York, N. Y.) (As of November, 1941) Socialist Labor Party National Committee (Headquarters, 61 Cliff Street, New York City) (As of November, 1941) National Secretary, Arnold Petersen. National, Gramaticoff, and J. T. Evanich. Treasurer, Paul Herzel. National Executive Committee-J. W. Aiken, F. E. Passonno, I. Feinberg. James Sim, W. W. Cox, Herbert Steiner, Margaret Lipicky, Theo. New York State Executive Committee-M. Kfonfeld. Stephen Emery, J. Grossman, L. F. Guillotte, Rose Weinberger, J. Berlin, John Timm, S. Blume, Anna Epstein. State Secretary-Emil F. Teichert. Prohibition National Committee (Headquarters, 82 W. Washington St., Chicago) (As of November, 1941) Chairman-Edward E. Blake, 82 W. Washington St. Chicago. Vice Chairman-William F. Varney, Rockville Centre, N. Y. Secretary, Hugh A. White, Detroit, Mich. Treasurer, Will D. Martin, Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. Executive Committee (including above)-Roger W. Babson, Babson Park, Mass.; Edgar V. Moor- Communist Party National Committee 35 E. 12th St., N. Y. City; not affiliated with the Communist Internationale The National Committee is headed by William Z. Foster, the Party's Chairman; Earl Browder, General Secretary. Membership. 80,327. |