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...declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes last week in rendering a Supreme Court decision which meant life for New York City and death for six little hamlets in Delaware County, N. Y. By the court's order New York was allowed to divert 440,000,000 gal. per day from certain tributaries of the Delaware River to add to the city's ever-growing water supply (TIME, April 27). By the same decree Arena (pop. 216), Dunraven (pop. 104), Union Grove (pop. 204), Shavertown (pop. 219), Pepacton (pop. 27) and pos-sibly Downsville (pop. 532) will be blotted...
...widely distributed tax is the gasoline tax, now levied by every State in the Union. Last week the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads revealed that the 48 States and the District of Columbia collected $494,683,410 (an increase of 14% over 1929) on 14,751,308,978 gal. used by motorists last year...
...gasoline tax rate ranged from 2¢ per gal. in Massachusetts,? Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Missouri, Wisconsin up to 6^ in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Ohio with a 4^ rate made the largest collection ($37,081,451), Nevada the smallest ($675,012). New York motorists used the most gasoline (1,438,582,-716 gal.), California the next (1,162,337,-545 gal.). The average U. S. motorist burned up 556 gal. in the course of the year, on which his tax was $18.62. (Average automobile registration...
...Last week Massachusetts raised its rate to 3$ per gal...
...water which New York City seeks from the Delaware equals one-half of the city's present daily consumption (880,000,000 gal.). The 6,930,446 citizens average 129 gal. per day each to drink, bathe in, cook with, wash clothes, heat and light homes, put out fires, wash streets, flush sewers...