Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Until about 1912 our Federal Government was supported by a tariff upon imports and a tax upon liquor and tobacco products. Then a demand suddenly arose to "soak the rich...
...alcoholic beverages may be imported, not even beer and wine. Even the foreign embassies in Jidda are forbidden shipments of liquor...
Today is the first day of the ninth month since the eleven o'clock parietal rules came to the Houses. For those who warned this liberty would cause excessive dispersion of wild oats, it was a disillusioning spring. A careful check has revealed no rise in the rates of liquor purchase, accidents, or any other social delinquency since last February. Nor have House attendants reported a greater number of loud parties or late sign-outs. In short, students have shown they merited even that small amount of confidence evinced in them by the Faculty...
Actually, the U.S. now has a partial system of sales taxes through the excise taxes (up to 40% on tobacco and liquor), the emergency "luxury"' taxes of 20% on cosmetics, jewelry, luggage, theater admissions and furs, the 15% levy on travel, telephone calls and sporting goods, and 10% on autos, refrigerators and TV sets. One advantage of a general sales tax is that it would replace this crazy-quilt discriminatory structure with a uniform tax (except on tobacco, gasoline and liquor, which probably would be left...
Testing. In Columbus, Ohio, Walter Doring, chief chemist for the State Department of Liquor Control, was found guilty of drunken driving...