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...Postage 3?? first class 3?? first class with zone increases on second class...
Before breath-bated galleries the House of Representatives last week completed its great tax-juggling act. For three exciting weeks its tossings and catchings? and droppings?had kept the legislative air alive with fur coats and chewing gum, diamond rings and matches, motor trucks and penny candy, yachts and 3?? stamps, radios and bottled "pop." Hundred-million-dollar levies were twirled around like so many rubber balls. As in a knife-throwing exhibition, it pitched sharp imposts at individuals and industries. It juggled normal rates, surtax rates, corporation rates, gift rates, inheritance rates, stock rates, dividend rates into a high...
...Office Department has been begging Congress to increase the first-class postal rate to make that letter service self-sustaining. So unpopular was the request that not a single Congressman could be found to introduce the necessary legislation. Yet last week the House upped the rate from 2¢ to 3?? without a struggle. Estimated yield...
...Defeat (216-10-132) a proposal to raise $350.000,000 by legalizing 2.75% beer and taxing it 3?? per pint...
...Edward George Seubert, president of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana and chairman of the Institute's marketing division, raged last week against a new racket: gasoline bootlegging. "Gaslegging" is the method of dishonest gasoline retailers who set up mushroom service stations and pocket the 3?? or 4¢ tax levied by the State on each gallon of gas. Illinois estimates it is being defrauded of $1,000,000 a month, Pennsylvania, an equal amount. The national loss was said to run between $15,000,000 and $50,000,000 yearly, the threat to the legitimate gasoline market was so serious that...