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...Pilsen, a brewery proprietor drowned himself in a vat of beer. On the vat he had chalked a statement that he died for shame because consumption of his beer had decreased more than 125 gal. during the year. He wrote also to his former customers, threatening to haunt them for their disloyalty...
...govern-& harbors, constructing ment buildings, 100: Federal roads, and to flood control. 15; Army be otherwise invested in & Navy housing, 25. a national public works The President was given program returning no $168,000,000 to spend revenue. A gasoline tax on public projects as he of Y^ per gal. is pro saw fit. None of this vided to amortize the c o n s t r u c t i o n w o u l d r e i s s u e . turn An revenue. increase of $1,-An increase of $1,- 500,000,000 in Recon...
...Tibet. The big city in the area is Wanhsien. Opium and rice are the district's two other products. The nuts are gathered by coolie labor and the oil extracted in crude wooden presses made of hollowed logs. It is carried to Hankow in paper containers holding 30-gal. hooped with bamboo. It is purified in Hankow, barged to Shanghai and shipped in tank steamers. The big U. S. port of entry is Seattle...
...Sales" Taxes. Before passing the final bill, the House again rejected (236-to-160) a general Sales Tax on manufacturers. Nevertheless under the guise of excises, it did juggle into the bill a long list of sales taxes on specific products ? 4¢ per gal. on lubricating oil (to yield $35,000,000); 10% on cosmetics ($20,000,000); on furs ($15,000,000); on jewelry ($15,000,000); on sporting goods and cameras ($6,500,000); on yachts & motor boats ($500,000); on firearms and ammunition ($2,500,000). Matches were to be taxed...
...Adopt a 1¢-per-gal. import tax (i. e. tariff) on crude oil and gasoline. Unsuccessfully (190-10-97) did Representatives from the Atlantic seaboard attempt to block this concession to the Southwestern oil producers. Next day the House chaplain opened the session by reciting . . . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalm...