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...mounted by our automobile exporters. First of these is the high Brit- ish horsepower tax of almost $5 per horsepower-or $100 annually, even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million each year, and amounts to enough on each car to restrict con- siderably their widespread ownership. Moreover, gasoline retails at about 45 cents a gallon, which makes running expenses high. U. S. cars are built without especial consideration for their consumption of gasoline, where British cars are especially constructed to be economical of fuel. Yet U. S. cars have several positive advantages...
...Exhibit B of the week. Sir Arthur Salter's round table had been pouring over the League of Nations for days. There had been dissension. Now the debate was brought out into Chapin Hall, where the Army and Business (pro) locked epithets with the Navy and miscellaneous interests (con). Rear Admiral John A. Rodgers, outspoken mariner, "shocked" a Britisher, was hissed by a woman. The tumult over, Sir Arthur obliged by answering League questions, dubbing the U. S. "Arcadia," to keep his remarks free from improprieties...
Docking at Hoboken, they were con fronted by an attentive swarm of U. S. Customs men, who opened, rummaged, scrambled the baggage with all that suspicious efficiency which is ordinarily accorded to millionaires, screen queens or famed pugilists...
...Mullage, President of the Illinois Farmers' Elevator Association, and several others of like experience. Among these men is Gray Silver. It is Gray Silver who has been chosen to head this tremendous project of the farmers. The public does not know Gray Silver very well, but any Con- gressman or any farmer knows all about him. Gray Silver is the Legislative Agent of the Farm Bureau Federation. He is the Federation's mouthpiece in Washington, keeps tab on the legislation that farmers are interested in. He is probably the greatest of the new type of lobbyist...
...missed Miss Brennan. The latter now rushed back to her brother to find that he had been shot in the abdomen and chest. "I am dying, Shirley," he moaned. "Fod God's sake, Bill, you're not," cried .'Shirley. "I know I'm dying," Brennan con tinued. "My poor wife, my poor child ! Poor Mary!" Realizing that her brother was dying Miss Brennan said : "Do you know who they were, Bill?" "I don't," he answered. Brennan then became unconscious and a few minutes later was dead. Meanwhile the assassins had made good their escape...