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...Soft drinks...
...offenders to save money. The gasoline tax has been upped from 2¢ to 6¢. A 4¢ tax is imposed on 15¢ cigarets. Last week Senator Long ordered 100 highway police to stop tax-dodgers from smuggling gasoline and cigarets into the State, warned them not to molest liquor 'leggers. Soft drinks, life insurance premiums, electricity and corporate capitalization are also heavily taxed. Enemies of Huey Long vehemently declare that his tax program has definitely hurt Louisiana business, driven new industries from the State...
...horse shows promise, thus piling up the world's richest purse-last week $108,450. Out of 2,026 original entries for this year, only eleven horses finally started. Climax of Long Island's smart racing season, this year's Futurity was run on a soft track before 20,000 people. Odds on favorite was William R. Coe's Ladysman, leading 2-year-old money winner ($101,135). Because he is known as a good mudder, odds on Ladysman increased rather than declined when it rained all the day before the race...
...voices so small and pinched that they are inaudible a few feet away in the studio. The control man will not be the real hero of their performances. Alda pupils must learn to sing in the canary bird's way. They must begin by developing tight abdominal muscles, soft, relaxed throats...
...straggling Freshmen vainly trying to register an hour too late, sped his way to the late lamented Union. He gorged himself well on the fare intended only for the newcomers, carefully avoiding the recognizing eye of his friend, the Adviser in religion. Then he settled himself comfortably in a soft spot to enjoy the fumes of Benson and Hedges, lulled into absent dreams by the pleasant voices of the speakers...