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Yet all these taxes would raise only $2,800,000,000 of the Treasury's extra $3,600,000,000. For the remainder the Treasury turned to increased excise taxes: 8? on cigarets, now 6½?, $4 per gallon on liquor, now $3; 2½? per gallon on gasoline...
Bonwit Teller's ace, Costa Rica-born designer Tom Lee, most respected of all Fifth Avenue window-display men, inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's forthcoming China Trade show, filled his windows with elegant Chinoi-series, including two life-size rag-doll horses. Swank Jeweler Marcus...
Last week the Maritime Commission received from the Office of Production Management a list of "essential" and "nonessential" imports which soon will be translated into cargo priorities. Classed as essential were the strategic and critical materials (rubber, tin, etc.), plus such secondary or civilian musts as leather, wool, zinc, copper...
Madame Lupescu had sent on ahead to Portugal three trunks full of her furs and most of the enormous treasure with which she and Carol fled Rumania. Last week she simply sent her servants out of the Andalusia Palace, gathered up a purse containing her jewelry, and with Carol at...
In peacetime winters Garmisch is almost as cosmopolitan as St. Moritz or Antibes, and though visitors this year, except for newspaper men, were almost 100% Aryan German, the effect remained. The expensive ladies of Germany's first families were blanketed in furs that looked as if they came from...