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...general manufacturers' sales tax such as now proposed by the President was rejected by the House decisively last spring, and blocked by a Senate round-robin. A $6 per bbl. tax on real beer, as advanced by the Wets for the present session, and as ignored by the President in his message, would produce approximately as much budget-balancing revenue as the loudly hated general sales...
Prime statistic: $6 per bbl. tax on beer is still part of the U. S. Internal Revenue law. On an estimated annual consumption of 50,000,000 bbl. (the U. S. drank 61,000,000 before 1919) the Treasury would collect...
...Jersey Representative Oscar Auf der Heide of West New York was elected president of $1,235,000 Elizabeth Brewing Corp. A successor to the old Peter Breidt brewery, Congressman Auf der Heide's concern has a real beer capacity of 200,000 bbl. per year...
...Neuberger, Manhattan bankers, offered some shares in Anheuser-Busch, Inc. The company's assets were listed at $26.295,000 and its earnings for the first half of the year were shown at $346,000. The pre-Prohibition capacity of the company's plants was 1,650,000 bbl. of beer annually and Hilson & Neuberger stated that the management estimated it could earn $5 per bbl. The Pabst capacity is set at 1,500,000 bbl.: perhaps when the great Pabst elevators are filled with grain, when its vats are steaming and its payroll upped from...
...thousands of acres. In the East Texas field it owns about 7% of the total acreage. Eight tank steamers and seven motorships transport its oil from Texas to Marcus Hook, about 17 mi. southwest of Philadelphia. There Sun owns 525 acres upon which stands a large refinery (40,000 bbl. a day), a plant that makes barrels and kegs for Sun and the trade. Shipbuilding yards and big dry-docks are at Chester...