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Theatre admissions tax. One cent on each ten cents or fraction (no change). Tickets costing 75¢ or less (formerly 50??) exempt...
...American Mercury is a publication that comes out once a month in a frog-green cover for 50??. Its writers push their noses against a cold mirror and squint at the mystical films their misting breaths design. They like to "show up" insipidities. They do so skillfully. But often what they tootle as an insipidity is verily the heart-belief of many honest folk...
...British Commonwealth produces nearly three quarters of the world's crude rubber and the U. S. consumes about the same proportion. During the War prices were about 50?? a pound. Following the War, prices dropped to around 17¢. A fair price is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30¢ or 35¢. Following the War the British rubber producers were in much the same trouble that U. S. agriculture is in today?overproduction and ruinously low prices. To remedy this a special type of export tax was devised to reduce the production of rubber. It was so arranged as to discourage production...
...50???See Laurel Mountains ahead and gain height to cross them ... as dusk falls lights may be seen for great distance on the mountain lanes...
...York. He said that Carl Schurz, one-time Secretary of the Interior, was an Independent and a Progressive, and that he was typical of the greatness of German-Americans today. He said that German-Americans had done great things for the Government. Seats were sold at from 50?? to $2.00, programs for 25¢, the speech for 10¢, and a collection was taken for the party campaign sheet. Afterward, several turnvereins exhibited gymnastics and German singing societies sang...