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...alert typewriter folk of Buffalo, shipped to far-away Angora 3,000 specially made, 31-key, 100% Turkish typewriters. "To build them we had to construct entirely new dies," said Remington Rand's foreign sales director John A. Zellers. "That was what sent the total cost of this shipment up to $400,000" ($133.33 per typewriter...
...Thus far the Federal Government has borne the brunt of [Dry] enforcement. It seems to me the Governors' Conference might well consider approaching the Federal Government on some feasible proposal to share this burden. If the National Government were to attend to preventing importation, manufacture and shipment in interstate commerce of intoxicants, the State undertaking the internal police regulations to prevent sales, saloons, speakeasies and so forth, national and state, laws might be modified so as to become reasonably enforceable and one great source of demoralizing and pecuniarily profitable crime removed...
...thought, would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them into the U. S. duty free as "agricultural implements" lent strength to this fear, foreshadowed dissension in the industry on a tariff...
...gradually and finally got the bung out and was surprised to find so much gone. But what there is, is in fine shape and I have it horsed up with a gooseneck tube and it is working fine. ... I know I shall have some fine wine out of this shipment. I may have an opportunity to do you people some good in Washington and if there is anything I can do, I shall do it with pleasure...
Alcohol is no longer the only commodity whose entry into the United States is forbidden by the customs office. A shipment of "Candide" has been banned by the collector of the port of Boston. Not because of the radical opinions expressed therein, but because the official found that certain portions of the volume were "dirty...