Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When liquor was legalized, Federal Alcohol Control Administration was swamped with 1,000 requests for permission to bring in 50,000,000 gal. of foreign wines & spirits. In the peak pre-War years, 12,000,000 gal. had been the annual importation. Accordingly, FACA issued import licenses after drastically reducing all importers' quotas. This action wrought considerably more hardship on legitimate dealers who had applied only for their honest needs than it did on a number of unscrupulous speculators and ex-'leggers who applied for quotas in the names of from one to 30 dummy corporations, with...
...international trade game, how many bushels of apples and pears equal how many gallons of wine? All last week the U. S. haggled that point with France. The original import quota of French wines had been 784,000 gal. Most of that had been bought up in the Christmas rush. If any more French wines were to be admitted, the Federal Alcohol Control Administration politely informed the French Embassy in Washington, France would have to buy a great deal more U. S. apples and pears...
Through Commercial Attache Maurice Garreau-Dombasle. the French Govern- ment announced that if the wine quota were doubled to 1,568,000 gal., France was prepared to quadruple its U. S. apple & pear imports to 900.000 bu. That seemed fair enough until it was learned that the thrifty French were quietly planning to up the tariff on U. S. fruits. This joker discovered, M. Garreau-Dombasle was required to present assurances from his Government that the fruit tariff would not be raised. He did, and the ratio of the international trade stood roughly thus: Frenchmen would eat two pecks...
Increasing the low-powered wine tax from 4? to 16? a gal. while running the tax on high-powered wines...
Decreasing the surtax on rectified spirits (cut liquor) from 30? to 16? a gal...