Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taste. Prices depend to some extent on the location of the shops; chiefly on overhead- rents and "tips." Rents usually vary between $50 and $200 per month; shopowners are unwilling to say how much it costs them to remain unmolested. Profits are not exorbitant. One gallon of the cheapest alcohol costs from $3 to $4 wholesale. Flavoring drops cost $1.25 per quart. From these can be made 14 bottles of 75? gin at an average cost of 30? per bottle. Labels cost little, bottles about 5? each. Grade A alcohol costs $5 or $6 per gallon wholesale, the best drops...
Cordial shops sell nonalcoholic vermouth and cordials. They also sell the "imported" kind. Or they will sell you nonalcoholic vermouth and a pint of alcohol and tell you how to mix them. Some of them take orders for "Canadian" beer, to be delivered by the case. Whiskeys are frankly of local manufacture. Said a cordial shop clerk last week: "You can't get any better whiskey than this [King George] whiskey. The man that made this whiskey has been making whiskey ever since Prohibition...
...Grade B, $1.75. Grade C, $1.25. Rye-William Penn $2.50 (pt.), Silver Dollar $3 (pt.), Overholt $4 (pt.), Butterham & Worth $4.50 (pt.). Scotch -Ambassador $2.50 (pt.), King George $2.50 (pt.), Johnnie Walker $4.75 (qt.), King George $4.75 (qt.). Port-$2.25 per quart. Sherry-$2.25 per quart. Grain Alcohol-$9 per gallon. Imported Cordi-als-$4.50 per bottle. Beer-$9 per case of 24 pints...
...Sept. 21). His spidery seaplane was the same but the engine was new, specially built for this test, with an estimated life of perhaps an hour at top speed when it would develop 2,600 h. p. The fuel, too, was something different: a mixture of refined gasoline, wood alcohol and ethyl...
...Physical Culture (price 15?) announced "the principles for which we stand. . . . We are struggling for the complete annihilation of those terrible evils which curse humanity the world over: 1) prudishness 2) corsets 3) muscular inactivity 4) gluttony 5) drugs 6) alcohol 7) tobacco...