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...liquor tax schedule: Spirits-$2 per gal., up from $1.10. Light wines-10? per gal., up from 4?. Heavy wines-20? per gal., up from 10?. Fortified wines-40? to $2 per gal., up from 25? & $1.10. Domestic sparkling wines-80? per gal, down from $1.92. Beer-$5 per bbl., down from...
Decreasing the levy on full-strength beer from $6 to $5 a bbl...
...their sherries, ports and Madeiras John Harvey & Sons'. When the Schulte interests sold Overholt and Large distilleries to National Distillers last spring. Park & Tilford received a big slice of the cash but lost their whiskey supply. Since then President Stewart has bought up warehouse receipts for 12,000 bbl. of rye and bourbon which Park & Tilford will sell under their own label, and has also searched for another distillery...
...promptly went into an all-day huddle behind locked doors. With its advice & consent Secretary Ickes shot to the Governors of the oil states maximum production quotas, which slashed the U. S. flow more than 300,000 bbl. daily. He banned withdrawal of oil in storage, ordered imports held at the average for the last six months of 1932. But, said Mr. Ickes: "After a final analysis ... I decided we would not attempt to fix prices today. I wanted to see what effect this allocation order would have...
...Ickes-Moffett code set a 40-hr. week, 40? an hour minimum pay, empowered the President to fix for 90 days a maximum base price per gallon of gasoline, crude oil prices per bbl. to be 18.5 times as high as the gasoline price. By way of compromise the whole question of price was, however, left subject to change by a committee of 15 to be appointed by the President. The committee is to "recommend" to States the quota production they should permit and by forbidding greater shipments in interstate commerce will enforce its "recommendations." Furthermore, withdrawal of oil from...