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ing their products used in the American eating place at a world’s fair.
There was some wonderment in the Congress icfr.al committee, there fore, at the use of an English brand of soda water in the American restaurant. The explanation given was that the American firm which was supplying a soft drink to the fair restaurant has American distribution : rights to the English soda, so American officials thought it would be all right to have the . British product used—and, bes'dethe export handler of the British water contributed $15.0*X) to :h>restaurant.
Then there was the matter o' rescuing the stranded rodeo. It seems that some American promoters decided a word’-, fa’r in Brussells would be a fine place to m ke seme money, so they recruited rodeo performers and enlisted the en couragemcr.T and c>>-ape ration of L’.S. officials. The project was no official, and the taxpayers’ monev was not provided. When the rod^o tured on* to be - Brussells flare . however, the Federal Govemmcn felt obligated to try to helo the stranded cowboys and Indians, m l advanced them passage money home. The money lent them r supposed to be paid back ' to the Treasury eventual), but no one really expects those cowboys and Indians to think first of their deb: to Uncle SArn when they accumulate some loose change.
If our Treasury didn't do r> well on the American participation in the Brussells Exposition, at leas the Belgium Treasury did—it collected more than $350,000 in taxes, most of the amount being tax?levied incident to construction of
j^thg j^merican exhibition building.
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