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...visa fee, bane of U. S. travelers abroad, started in 1920 when U. S. consuls were instructed to collect $9, plus $1 for executing the application, from each and every foreigner who wanted a passport visaed. Delighted at finding a new source of revenue, several foreign governments instantly retaliated, charged all U. S. tourists $10 each...
Died. Baron Karl von Skoda, 51, inventor of the Skoda howitzer (bane of Liege, Antwerp, Verdun); in Vienna...
...Sever--not to mention other sanctuaries--the Student Vagabond has disliked the month of March. Notwithstanding its general accepted zoological aspects, this month has always seemed to him more or less a Sahara: nor do the prevalent examinations--leading educators are agreeing with the Vagabond that they are a bane--serve in any way to aid the desert in its traditional work of blossoming as the rose...
...commodity, from the jurisdiction of equity courts and from control by court injunctions. The A. F. of L. men recited uses and abuses of anti-Labor injunctions, the effect of which has been to turn the anti-trust laws from organized Labor's blessing into Labor's bane...
President Kraft had had that great cheese made. It symbolized the opening at Durant, of the first commercial cheese factory in the South. And that factory meant a market for milk; a market for milk meant that dairy industry would develop and kill the bane of a single (cotton) crop in the South...