Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liquor, which caused the biggest rush, the tax increase is a flat $1 a gallon. For a quart of whiskey the additional tax amounts to 25?; for a fifth, it comes to 20?. But whiskey buyers this week found that prices had gone up as much as 50? a quart, 35? a fifth. On radios, the additional tax is 4½%, bringing the total Federal tax to 10%. But radio prices are up a full 10% or more...
These last are the levies which bear most heavily on the poor, who pay no income tax. These taxes will fall on virtually everything the U.S. citizen enjoys, starting Oct. 1. Excise taxes (which are in effect sales taxes) range from a $1-a-gallon increase on whiskey to a flat 10% on cameras, musical instruments, washing machines, jewelry, cosmetics, rubber goods. Nuisance taxes include such penny-snatching tribute as: 10% on theater tickets costing 10? or more; 5% on nightclub bills; 6% on telephone bills for local calls; 10% on telegrams and long-distance calls costing 25? or more...
...recorder blends well with a violin, or with other recorders. There are four kinds: soprano, alto, tenor, bass, the last surprisingly weak and whiskey-voiced for its three-foot length. Until five years ago, most recorders were made in Germany or England. The English revival had been started by the late untidy-bearded Arnold Dolmetsch, musical antiquary. One of his pupils, Margaret Bradford (who now helps run the American Recorder Society), got a Haverhill. N.H. cabinetmaker named William F. Koch to make some. Now Manufacturer Koch turns hard, red cocobolo wood into 90% of the recorders sold...
...semi-organized campaign to spread lies about the British, particularly about alleged British misuse of Lend-Lease funds. For two weeks one such story made the rounds of irresponsible gossips: that the British in Washington were running up huge café and restaurant bills for rare wines, whiskey, food, were charging it all to Lend-Lease funds. The British were further supposed to have ordered the installation of 100 portable air-conditioning units in their hotel rooms; to have chatted for hours with Canadian friends by long-distance telephone-in all cases charging the bill to Lend-Lease...
...arrive in Buenos Aires and drink your 'good neighbor' whiskey in a friendly atmosphere. You visit our capital city, and you return to the White House to tell Mr. Roosevelt...