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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work Done. Business of the week was passage of the liquor tax bill, providing a levy of $2 a gal. on spirits; and from 10? to $1.10 a gal. on wines (estimated revenue: $500,000,000). It passed 388 to 5 after two days' windy debate...
...chair should parties change. Chairman Doughton is shortly to be translated to the Tariff Commission. His probable successor is stalwart, pipe-smoking Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating liquor taxes. They decided to up the spirits tax from $1.10 to $2 per gal. and the House swiftly agreed (see p. 15). The Senate group on ways & means is called the Finance Committee, Mississippi's Pat Harrison, chairman. Besides raising money, Congress has the duties of spending it and denning it. For these two purposes each house has two other potent committees. The two Appropriation...
...reason why Pennsylvanians had to pay higher prices: They were obliged to absorb a $2 a gal. tax which the Legislature last month put upon all liquor stored in the state. This tax was bitterly contested by Schenley Distillers Corp. who had most of the liquor stocks in the state -6,500,000 gal. Last week the quarrel was settled at the expense of the consumer when the Liquor Board got the company to drop its lawsuit by agreeing to buy all its supply for 80? more a gal. than the prevailing wholesale price...
Last week the Democratic majority of the House Ways & Means Committee voted to recommend to Congress the following Federal liquor tax schedule: Spirits-$2 per gal., up from $1.10. Light wines-10? per gal., up from 4?. Heavy wines-20? per gal., up from 10?. Fortified wines-40? to $2 per gal., up from 25? & $1.10. Domestic sparkling wines-80? per gal, down from $1.92. Beer-$5 per bbl., down from...
...Salamis, so vaingloriously described by Greeks, a different slant. C. A joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring Ur of the Chaldees under the direction of the Museum's veteran Excavator Charles Leonard Woolley, unearthed a temple dedicated to the moon-goddess Nin-Gal. complete with shrines and food preparation chambers. Also discovered was a brick-lined well, sunk by King Ur-Engur (2300 B. C.) and conscientously repaired by later rulers, one of whom imbedded eight tablets in the masonry describing his work. Greece. Continuing their long delving into the Athenian marketplace...