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Show I Fruit Juice Taxes Ruinous. Washington. Federal taxes of 10 per cent on the gross sales of grape, apple and loganberry juices have so increased in-creased prices to consumers that the industry is threatened with destruction, destruc-tion, the house ways and means committee com-mittee was told Monday by a delegation delega-tion of Washington and Oregon congressmen con-gressmen and representatives of the industry. A tax of 2 cents a gallon 01 less, was nrged, the spokesmen declaring declar-ing that at present prices sales were decreasing rapidly. |