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...silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams of silver with other prices in proportion. If silver-bearing Russians wanted rubles, Torgsin clerks gave them twelve rubles per kilogram of silver. This would make...
...Restored the Wartime nuisance tax of 12 pfennigs (2½¢) on each kilogram (2.2 Ib.) of salt...
...royal wedding seems ever quite complete without a bomb, and a bomb there was, last week, for Crown Prince Olaf of Norway and his bride, Sweden's grave and lovely Princess Martha. In placing such royal nuptial dynamite-this time a whole kilogram-the usual thing is to plant it in the storied castle where the Prince and Princess expect to make their home. Therefore, last week experienced Norwegian police searched and searched every nook and cranny in and about Castle Oskarshal, until they found and nullified the nuptial bomb...
...Duties. Typical of the increases are the following: magnetos, which paid seven francs a kilogram, are now assessed 80 francs a kilogram ? increase 1,100%; fountain pens, admitted on a tariff of five francs a pen, must pay 80% on their value; electrical equipment for automobiles must meet a levy increased by 800%; magneto breaker points and distributors, 1,300% increase; spark plugs, 800% increase. It is to be noted that all these articles are manufactured by Germany...
Captain Clauzat of the French Army Air Service holds the world's altitude record with a 250 kilogram load carried to 30,406 ft. Trying to beat his own record at Dijon, last week, he saw flames bursting from the motor. Prompt work with the fire extinguisher apparently stopped the fire. In a hurried descent he found himself "pancaking" upon Liegard Woods. Still 100 ft. or more from the ground, Captain Clauzat undid his belt, and a moment later jumped 15 ft. into the branches of a tree. He alighted without so much as a scratch, but saw with...