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Signed by Pennsylvania's Governor George Earle in Harrisburg last week was another chain-store tax bill. It was not of the Louisiana variety, in which the graduated levy is calculated not on the number of stores within the State but on the total number of units in the system (TIME, May 31). But the Pennsylvania tax will be even harder on the chains than the Louisiana levy, because Pennsylvania is a more important chain-store State. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., for instance, has 2,100 stores in Pennsylvania, only 106 in Louisiana. And the Pennsylvania tax rises...
...aspersions should be cast on this addition to Winthrop because of its appearance. The Kirkland House library is a charming example of how refreshing a frame building can be in this brick and stone University. But nevertheless, for Harvard to be forced to open a tiny unit like the Riverside hall, which will indeed barely scrape the surface of a really important habitation problem, is for the University to admit just how difficult that problem has become. Rearrangement of suites here and there has made available in all accomodations for about fifteen more men in the Houses--a few squirm...
...supermarket is even more of a menace to the little independent than the chain, for the supermarket can undersell them both (TIME, May 24). Moreover the supermarket, doing on the average ten times as much business as a single chain store unit, counts as only one store for taxation purposes. But what chain-store men would prefer to either the supermarket or the voluntary chain would be to persuade the public that anti-chain store legislation amounts to subsidizing inefficient or outmoded independent retailers at the consumer's expense...
...Whitney asks, and quite justifiably, to whom the ambulance will go. It is not to be turned over to the Spanish government, but rather to an American medical unit, staffed by American doctors and nurses it will render strictly medical aid to wounded soldiers and civilians, in the territory held by the Valencia government, elected by the Spanish people in the spring...
Military Science IV seniors who will direct the demonstration are Charles W. Kessler, Battalion Commander, F. Gorham Brigham, Jr., Battalion adjutant, and the four Battery commanders, James J. Gaffney, Jr., Robert A. Williams, Edward T. Gignoux, and Francis A, Wendell. Other important Senior officers of the unit are Clifton F. Kann, Malcolm S. M. Watts, Jr., William F. Renner, Richard M. Walsh, Jr., Henry M. Adlis, and Richard S. Levering...