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...million cases, worth $280 million wholesale). Before a bottle of liquor goes on sale at any of Pennsylvania's 750 "state stores," the board jacks up the price 48% for its own profit, then adds an 18% "emergency" tax levied decades ago to help victims of the 1936 Johnstown flood, and finally tacks on a 6% sales tax. When these taxes upon taxes are compounded, they amount to a markup of 85% for the state. Not surprisingly, Pennsylvanians try to purchase much of their liquor in neighboring states like Maryland, where a half-gallon oi whisky sells for about...
Considering this year's flood in Johnstown, drought in California, blackout in New York and the bitter winter followed by the extreme heat of the past summer, I believe the nomination should go to that unlovable old lady-Mother Nature...
...billion integrated plant in Conneaut, Ohio, might be postponed. At Bethlehem Steel, where first-half profits dived 88%, the board halved the quarterly dividend, to 250 a share, closed three small mills and made plans to lay off 7,300 out of 22,900 workers at plants in Johnstown, Pa., and Lackawanna...
...this analyzing why people looted New York during the blackout is a cover-up for pure and simple greed. After the flood, the mayor of Johnstown, Pa., had the right idea by ordering looters shot...
...wicked weather also brought drought, flood and one major tragedy In Johnstown, Pa. (pop. 41,000), site of the deadliest deluge in U.S. history,* a seven-hour thunderstorm produced floods that left at least 46 people dead more than 50,000 homeless and an estimated $200 million in damages...