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...Geisha girls cannot have permanent waves, fancy coiffeurs, heavy makeup, manicures, high heels or too bright kimonos. Tokyo Imperial University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard saloons, cafes, bars. Tokyo cafes can have only one waitress per six square metres of floor space, instead of one per four square metres as formerly. Gasoline is forbidden to the few thousands who own private cars...
game manufacturers found that in 1936 Bingo was their best seller, with unit sales (from 10? to $12 the game) likely to surpass the last great fad game, Mah-jongg (1924). In New Jersey alone, reported Lawyer Berlin, 200 Bingo operators are netting $300,000 a week, the average game drawing more than 1,000 players. Firms now flourish which go into a parish house, lodge or theatre, run a Bingo party on a percentage basis. Though the Bishop of Albany frowned upon Bingo simply because it is scandalous, his fellow bishops technically are under no obligation...
...must hang in the drying rooms four months before being passed by inspectors. Of a 250-lb. hog all but 9.38 Ib. goes into edible products. The residue consists of hides for tanning, hair, skin and sinew good for glue, grease for lubricants, bones for buttons, bone-handles, Mah-Jongg sets and dust. Orientals pay more than $100 per Ib. for hog gallstones. The ultimate remainder is brewed, dried and ground, sold as stock feed. Only the paunch manure is not used for anything. And, as stockroom adage has it, the squeal...
...states have a sales tax on gasoline, no State has a sales tax on every article of trade. During the War and after, the U. S. taxed a variety of luxury commodities from automobiles and candy to cigar holders and Mah-Jongg sets. The Reed plan would tax everything. The sale of a $6 pair of shoes would net the Treasury 3?. Senator Reed estimated such a tax, bitterly opposed by retailers, would net the U. S. $2,000,000,000 per year or about half of its operating costs...
...with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences of brontosauri and kindred fauna. But he is very polite and does not press his own ingenious theory until the very end. There he also says a word about four modern dragons? Respectability, Bigotry, Cant and Mah Jongg...