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Wines. Duty on Empire sparkling wines increased from is 6d to 7s 6d per gallon. The present duty, ?4 per 112 lb. on imported hops (largely from the Pacific northwest) continued for another four years...
...hall openly, as the nature of the offence shall require, not exceeding ten shillings, or ten stripes for one offenses." Until 1734, the flogging often took place in public. Some of the early fines were: neglecting to repeat the sermon, 9d; going out of college without proper costume, 6d; and frequenting taverns, not over 1s., 6d. Opening doors by picklocks was also an offense...
Reduced in size and price (from is. to 6d.), the Graphic was renamed The National Graphic. Editor Beaumont explained: "Lord Northcliffe, followed by Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook, set out to organize the daily and Sunday newspapers on a national scale, but nobody has yet taken up the British weekly press in a similar way, although it has been done in the United States where the weeklies have gigantic circulations...
...Reduction 3,815 5,250 Best & Co 926 1,265 Calumet & Hecla 2,573 d 6d Caterpillar Tractor 1,361 8,714 Consolidated Laundries 689 771 Continental Baking 4,243 6,114 Cream of Wheat 1,504 1,868 Glen Alden Coal 7,391 12,245 Industrial Rayon 683 1,547 La Salle Extension University 75 167 Lima Locomotive 1.414 d 1,382 McGraw-Hill 869 2,021 New Jersey Zinc Co 3,051 5,013 Parke, Davis & Co 6,292 7,514 Standard Brands...
...basic income tax rate was raised to 25%. Coalition Philip Snowden having restored in his 1930-31 budget the 6d lopped off the tax by Conservative Winston Churchill in 1925, last week restored the 6d which Conservative Baldwin cut away in 1923. The tax climbed back to five shillings in the pound. The surtax rate on all incomes over $9,720 has been raised 10% in all brackets. Exemptions have been cut to incomes of only $486 a year for single persons and $729 for childless married...