Business: Business Notes, Jan. 10, 1927

Boxing Profits. George L. ("Tex") Rickard computed the income of the professional boxing bouts he promoted. In 1924, 1925 and 1926, gate receipts totaled $7,790,993. Of this 1/20 went to state taxes and 1/10 to Federal taxes.

Old Whiskey. The largest distillery in Canada is Hiram Walker's at Walkerville, across the river from Detroit. It contains 107,000 barrels of old whiskey, the largest matured stock in Canada. All this U. S. investors owned until last week. Then they sold the business to a Toronto group for $15,000,000.

Chevrolet Reductions in price went into effect last week—$20 to $50 on different models. At $525...

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