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...theory the new French tariff is not discriminatory. In fact it discriminates ingeniously against cars of the Buick type and in favor of cars of the Packard sort...
These two cars are in a vastly different Price class but in nearly the same weight class. Under the present French tariff, ad valorem ("according to value"), a high priced Packard pays a high tariff of $1,182 per car, and a medium priced Buick pays a medium tariff...
Under the new tariff a hefty Packard will pay $1,230 (a comparatively trifling increase) but a Buick of nearly the same heft will pay $1,189 (an increase of 75%: a crushing discrimination against Buick or "medium priced" cars...
Ford Victory. If the defeat of Buick in the new French tariff schedules is accidental and incidental, such is not the case in the victory of Ford over Chevrolet, a direct personal victory for Mr. Ford...
Capone had been smuggled out of the Eastern Penitentiary in one of the two vans during the morning, carried to the new State Prison at Grater Ford (pop. 180), 25 miles northwest of Philadelphia. There he had been freed four hours earlier. A blue Buick sedan, it was reported, had streaked away into the underworld. "Al" Capone was again at large...