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...afford books like this. In fact, 25 such persons may spend $125 each for a leather-bound autographed copy of Artist Hunt's sketch book and put it away for their grandsons to look at when buffleheads, woodcock, black-breasted plover, wild turkeys and the like are extinct. Artist Hunt is the man who makes animal stories look so attractive in fiction magazines. This volume testifies eloquently that he, like Etcher Frank Benson, has gone to nature for his learning, really knows his game. The publisher will somewhat exasperate his customers by including only four color prints...
Palm Springs (Walter Wanger) is an attempt to commercialize the publicity which fan magazines and travel agencies have lavished on a colony of luxury hotels perched on the rim of an extinct volcano in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles. The narrative concerns the efforts of Joan Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...
...bootlegging that used to net such rich spoils is practically extinct, and perpetual surveillance of the underworld has resulted in exceedingly slim pickings from the labor and gambling rackets, which were expected to be gangsters' gold-mines after Repeal. Consequently there is no motive left for murder and violence other than private vengeance, and even this form of amusement has grown unpopular among Chicago's mobdom owing to the tireless efforts of police authorities...
...manufacturers' sales tax at 5%: $530,000,000. An increase of the normal income tax from 4% to 6% : $121,000,000. Higher surtaxes in $3,000-to-$100,000 brackets: $226,000,000. About 30 excise taxes on farm products at rates lower than the extinct processing taxes: $221,000,000. An increase of the Federal gasoline tax from 1? to 1½?per gal.: $80,000,000. Louder groans than before rose from the House committee. Compared to these burdensome taxes, with their low yield, the President's tax on undivided profits seemed the least...
...early peoples agree that the feather work of the Bawaiian islanders is one of the highest arts ever devised by a savage race. In making the capes thousands of tiny feathers, carefully selected from the plumage of rare mountain birds, were woven in intricate designs. The birds, now extinct because of the feather hunting, were the so-called "oo," "mamo," and "iiwi" birds, and were captured on sticky poles which the hunter baited...