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...increase in the gasoline tax from 1? to 1½ per gal...
...muttered "Eh, Bien." Then he and another seasoned French pilot named Maurice Rossi kissed their weeping mechanics goodbye, kissed the astonished field manager, climbed into the Joseph LeBrix. No one at Floyd Bennett Field had ever seen such a takeoff. With the unheard-of load of 1,770 gal. of gasoline, the plane weighed nine tons. Cool-headed Pilot Codos held her to nearly the end of the mile-long runway, then eased her into a gentle climb-100 ft. altitude in about three miles. They were off into the east, to what destination even they knew not. Their sole...
What prompted the Dalrymple statement was the fact that there is today under government bond in the U. S. only about 6,000,000 gal. of medicinal hard liquor. After Repeal the country would gulp this all down in a few weeks. Because it takes four years to age real whiskey, an acute domestic liquor shortage looms unless production is again permitted. As it is unlikely that the Federal Government will grant that permission in advance of final Repeal, foreign liquor manufacturers have amassed enormous surplus stocks for shipment into the U. S. at a moment's notice...
Cradle of the Cheap GAL REPORTER-Joan Lowell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Joan Lowell, who signed her name to The Cradle of the Deep, one of the best-selling true-story hoaxes of recent years, has rested on her dubious laurels for four years. When her money dwindled, she had to hunt a job. She got one as reporter on a Boston tabloid, the Daily Record. Gal Reporter tells, in ochreous tabloid style, some of her assignments. For tabloid readers who think highly enough of their favorite reading matter to buy it in hook form, Gal Reporter should do nicely. More...
...lobby, she was thrilled. Author Woodward makes Larry a far-from-attractive specimen, tacitly defends himself by intimating that women's tastes are unaccountable. Some of Larry's more honeyed speeches: "Say, dear, give me your coat. . . . Please rise a moment, will you, dear? . . . You golden-voiced gal. . . . How about a little loving?" Evelyn thought he was just irresistible, yielded herself with hardly a struggle. It was not long, however, before she discovered he was a bad number. When he threatened blackmail she shot him. Another woman was arrested. Evelyn got Husband John to take the case...