Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delighted to accede to the liquor industry's request to be taxed. Under the recent revenue bill the tax on distilled liquors is raised from $2 to $2.25 a gallon for spirits tax-paid after July 1. This horrified the retail liquor business because it meant that any dealer with large stocks tax-paid before July 1 would have a price advantage. So Congress was asked to add a 25? floor tax to such stocks to avoid demoralizing the price structure. Last week the Senate Finance Committee favorably reported the bill...
Corn. After last year's huge corn harvest (2,644,995,000 bu.), mid-western farmers were asked to plant 18% fewer acres. Many ignored the request. It is estimated that by fall, last year's surplus will total 300,000,000 bu., 30% above normal. This fact plus prospects of an average 1938 crop last week dropped futures prices on the Chicago Exchange to 57? a bu., 60? below last year, and prompted Administrator Howard Ross Tolley to predict that a Federal corn loan will be necessary this fall...
TIME, May 23, however, your reviewer slipped up on one small but important detail in his article on the large Exhibition of American Art 1609-1938 which the Museum of Modern Art assembled at the request of the French Government for a summer showing in the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris. After outlining and analyzing with swift clarity the scope of the exhibition, your reviewer states in the caption under your color reproduction of Henry Varnum Poor's Boy with Bow that the artist is not represented in the Paris show...
...Harvard committee will also request that the second ambulance be attached to "one of the medical units in Barcelona, or some other large city, where it will be used to give succor to those injured in air raids. Because it can travel at a greater rate of speed and can hold more persons, it has been found that a vehicle such as is contemplated is more satisfactory, than a regulation ambulance in afflicted areas...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in Printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withhold. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...