 The big manufacturers and the big merchants know that this fire expense is a tax. They equip their premises with automatic sprinklers. They put in protective apparatus. They get the lowest insurance rate they can because it helps them to compete ; but...  Journal of the Western Society of Engineers - Page 246by Western Society of Engineers (Chicago, Ill.) - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Political science - 1917 - 366 pages
...every year, a representative of the government were to come around and ask us each for a check for $30 to pay our share of the national carelessness, then...and there it pays a fire tax. It is insured in the texile factory where it is worked up into cloth. It is insured in the clothing store, insured in the... | |
 | 1917 - 602 pages
...helps them to compete ; but the man in the street — the ordinary man — does not know how this tire waste is paid. Take wool, for example. Wool in the...is insured in transportation, and there it pays a tire tax. It is insured in the textile factory where it is worked up into cloth. It is insured in the... | |
 | Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim - Cities and towns - 1917 - 638 pages
...is a tax. They • From an address delivered at the fall meeting of the Portland Cement Association, equip their premises with automatic sprinklers. They...along this fire tax is added to the cost ; and when we buy a coat we pay it. Every stock of goods that is insured carries this tax, and it is passed along... | |
 | Montana. State Fire Marshall - 1923 - 36 pages
...because it helps them to compete: but the man in the street — the ordinary man — does not know this fire waste is paid. Take wool, for example. Wool...insured in the textile factory where it is worked into cloth. It is insured in the clothing store, insured in the tailor shop, in the department store,... | |
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