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...2??% on manufacturers' sales...
...York Stock Exchange values jumped $3,000,000,000 in five trading hours. The next market day they surged up another $4,000,000,000 in two hours. The rise was the sharpest and strongest in months. Simultaneously cotton moved up $1 per bale. Wheat spurted 1¢ and 2?? per bu. Commodities bulged hopefully. The cause: A bill (House of Representatives No. 9203) "to improve the facilities of the Federal Reserve System for the service of commerce, industry and agriculture, to provide means for meeting the needs of member banks in exceptional circumstances and for other purposes...
...wise citizen who knows the Father of His Country in all the new Washington Bicentennials. The Post Office Department has gone to some pains to obtain obscure likenesses. Of the issue, which ranges from 2?? to 10¢, there are four Charles Wilson Peales, two John Trumbulls, a reproduction of the Houdon bust, the famed Gilbert Stuart ($1 bill) Athenaeum portrait, the New York Historical Society's anonymous portrait, a crayon drawing made from life by Charles B. F. Saint-Memin, a portrait by William Williams...
...issued Jan. 25 is a 2?? stamp picturing a ski juniper and memorializing the winter Olympics at Lake Placid...
Gasoline will be taxed 4¢ more a gallon. All entertainment taxes are raised to 16?%. Tobacco will be taxed 1¢ more an ounce, beer 2?? more a pint...