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...Rubber Duty-free 5?...
Telephone 5?? on 31¢-to-49¢ -messages: 10¢ on all over...
...Negroes, East Side Jews, a rag, tag & bobtail from the four corners of New York jostled Park Avenue socialites in the corridors. A dozen languages merged into a humming background for the sharp cries of men selling balloons, noisemakers, dolls, mickeymice, pink lemonade gone modern in bottles, popcorn, peanuts (5?? outside, 10¢ within), frankfurters and colored parasols. Over all sounded the neighing of horses, bellowing of elephants, laughing of hyenas, screeching of monkeys. The Garden's roof was a maze of ropes and wires, its floor a carpet of earth, sawdust and manure. In the air blue with tobacco smoke...
Likewise the Treasury was to collect $33,000,000 by a 5??-to-10¢ tax on telephone & telegraph messages costing 31¢ or more...
Bond sales were to be taxed ?% (estimated yield, $25,000,000), real estate conveyances, 50¢ per $500 ($10,000,000), and future contracts in the produce markets 5?? per $100 ($6,000,000). The security holder who escaped these levies by keeping his assets in a safety deposit box would have to pay 10% to the U. S. on the box's rental...