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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...
Increasing the Federal tax on spirits from $1.10 a gal...
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...
They tried to take off from the sultry harbor, but the ship refused to rise, so slick was the water, so still the air. They unloaded 40 gal. of fuel, piled most of their baggage ashore. The Colonel rocked the controls back & forth as he gunned the ship across the harbor. Still it refused to take off. Twice, thrice-five times he tried, then dejectedly clambered ashore again to whistle for a breeze...