"I'll give you an inside picture of a man who gets $100,000 a year," exploded Montgomery Ward's President Sewell Avery last week at the company's annual meeting. "You shareholders turn over to me 100,000 cold dollars, which in your language is a hell of a lot. The income tax reduced it by about $70,000. If I were to save all that is left and the inevitable should come, the inheritance tax would be applied and I would leave my heirs an estate of something over $12,000. "Now, damn you, am I getting too much?" "But," protested a stockholder, "if you were...
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