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...taxes are increased from 25% on the first $25,000 to 30%, from 47% to 52% on the remainder. ¶ The excess-profits tax is boosted by lowering the "normal" earnings (exempt from the tax) to 83% of the 1946-49 base period instead of the current 85%. ¶ Whiskey taxes are raised 24? to 30? per fifth, beer $1 per barrel, cigarettes 1? per package, gasoline ½? per gallon, autos $50 for a light sedan. A new 10% excise tax is placed on power lawnmowers, home movie projectors, electric dishwashers...
Places like the Crawford House provide beer at fifty cents a bottle, along with comics, whiskey-sopranos, and strippers. The Crawford House's patrons range from visiting sailors and students to young ladies and middle-aged men who live in and near the Square...
With his brewery profits, Soriano has bought mines, dairies, factories, forests, a radio station, owns the third largest Coca-Cola bottling franchise in the world, acts as Philippine agent for five insurance firms, distributor for Philip Morris cigarettes and Lord Calvert whiskey. Nor are his interests purely local. He controls Kansas City's George Muehlebach Brewing Co., bosses gold mines in British East Africa, a development company in Spain. His holdings stretch so far & wide that one top executive, who has been with him 15 years, says: "I still haven't been able to memorize even the names...
...witness define her charges of cruelty. Her husband, said her former houseman, called his wife dirty names, revved up the radio and slammed doors every time she tried to study her scripts, forced her to sleep in his room, pointed his antique firearms at her, left empty whiskey bottles around the lawn and in the grandfather clock. "It was just too much to bear," said Agnes...
...verbal blast at "the Sunday morning whiskey bottle" was fired by an irate Wellesley junior last week. In a letter to the editors of the college paper, she exhorted students to persuade their "talented young men" not to leave "remembrances" on the campus...