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...venerable Scottish distiller, who makes 70% of Britain's whiskey, could not restrain himself from expressing astonishment that the U. S. Government, "which still has an unbalanced budget," taxes its domestic spirits only $2 per gal., against Britain's tax of 72 shillings sixpence...
...ladies as a "rattlesnake." Rector Livingston said he had not. He said Miss Julia Smith had told someone that he ought to be "behind the bars." Miss Julia Smith said she had not. Someone said Miss Smith had once broken up a Ladies Aid Meeting by tossing a 5-gal. gasoline can across the room. "I never heard of such a thing," snapped Miss Smith...
...plot is not too original, but is hardly noticed. The little gal falls into the hands of shady racing characters and by her juvenile winsomeness reforms even the most hardened of the toughs. As the chief male character, Adolphe Menjou is satisfactory, and Charles Bickford is his usual self as Big Stove, the head of the guys...
Beginning when Henry Linden brings his bride Manella home from India to live amongst his old British family tree, awaiting the building of his own little nest, we travel space through her affair with his brother, and the resulting complications to where his brother's original country-gal wife, loving her husband and still liking his seductress, walks into the burning barn and thus out of the picture. The following nervous breakdowns, maddened raving, etc., turn what started out a very clever snappy job into a rather morbid dissection of human passion and pain...
...response to a Senate resolution the Federal Trade Commission last week reported that the oil code had cost U. S. motorists $160,550,000. In 272 cities covered by the survey up to Jan. 31, gasoline prices had risen an average of 1.04? a gal. since July 1, a month before the code was signed. The Commission also reported that combined State and Federal taxes, which have nothing to do with the code, averaged 5.14? a gal., or $700,000,000 annually. Highest State taxes were in Florida and Tennessee (7?), lowest in Connecticut. District of Columbia, Missouri and Rhode...