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...bill (about one-fifth of the Treasury's $10.5 billion request) from its nervous Ways & Means Committee. More than half of the new revenue would come from upped postal rates (three cents on in-town letters, eight cents on air mail) and whopping excises (including a $9-per-gal. tax on liquor...
Some 2,800 stockholders in two lately obscure U.S. corporations are about to be inundated with 255,000 bbl. of rye and Kentucky bourbon. That is 12,240,000 gal., or 48,960,000 quarts, or 61,200,000 fifths of Christmas cheer. The cheer...
...save excess-profits taxes, Baltimore's small Tom Moore Distillery last week declared a dividend of 27 gal. of bourbon whiskey for every one of its 17,500 shares...
Even at that, the cost (estimated at more than $7 a gal., excluding personal income taxes and nervous breakdowns) would be a good deal less than the price of any old Paregoric at retail today-if any could be found. For the thirsty the news was all bad: the two hoards were among the last in the country that the whiskey-pinching Big Four distillers have not already snapped...
...reserve supply is nowhere near as big as it sounds: almost 100,000,000 gal. will disappear in "shrinkage" and evaporation before it gets bottled, another 100,000,000 gal. is being held as a last-ditch reserve for blending with new stocks, come peace. And around one-third of the remaining 200,000,000 gal. is not yet two years old. Whiskey consumption is at the rate of 87,000,000 gal. a year...