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...promising foreign markets is Great Britain. The removal of the duty on imported cars there should prove an undoubted stimulus to the sale of U. S. cars. Nevertheless, there are several difficult handicaps still to be sur- mounted by our automobile exporters. First of these is the high Brit- ish horsepower tax of almost $5 per horsepower-or $100 annually, even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million each year, and amounts to enough on each car to restrict con- siderably their widespread ownership. Moreover, gasoline retails at about 45 cents a gallon...
...Purcell, Chairman of the Congress, said in answer that the Council of the Congress had already decided to ask the Amsterdam Internationale to issue invitations to call such a conference at which Russians could be present. This was taken to mean that Brit ish trades unionism would cooperate with Russians upon an equal basis but would not permit the latter to dominate or dictate...
...proposed to increase the pensions of veterans and widows of veterans and nurses of the War of 1812 and of the Mexican, Civil, Indian, Span ish, Philippine and Boxer Wars. The proposed increase for Civil War vet erans was from $50 to $72 a month. The present outlay for pensions is about...
...scholarship of $325, to K. I. Balcom 1M.; the Edward M. Barringer scholarship, number one, of $300, to F. R. Clark 1M.; the Isaac Sweetser scholarship of $250, to L. W. Bartree 1M.; one-half of the Lewis and Harriet Hayden scholarship, amounting to $112.50, to G. W. S. Ish 2M.; one-half of the Lewis and Harriet Hayden scholarship, amounting to $112.50, to L. E. Welker...
...following Medical School scholarships were awarded: E. M. Barringer No. 1 Scholarship, F. R. Clark 1M.; David Williams Cheever Scholarship, I. Gerber 1M.; Joseph Pearson Oliver Scholarship, K. I. Balcom 1M.; Isaac Sweetser Scholarship, L. W. Bortree 1M.; Lewis and Harriet Hayden Scholarships, G. W. S. Ish 3M. and L. E. Welker...