Word: alee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., whose product mixes well with stiffer stuff, echoed Coca-Cola's story. Starting with 1927. the year Ontario went from Dry to Wet, the company's U. S. and Canadian per capita sales have compared as follows...
Thirsty inhabitants of Greenwich Village were alarmed one day fortnight ago to see a large new padlock on the door of a popular 6th Avenue shop. Gone from the window were the innocent green ginger ale bottles which had identified it as one of Manhattan's legion of "cordial & beverage" shops. On the sidewalk rested several battered milk cans. Pasted on the door was a notice that read: "Closed for violation of the Prohibition Law." But before the day was over Villagers were reassured. The sign had not been up 24 hours before above the padlock notice appeared...
...cordial shop is easily identified. It is a small, neat store in the window of which are some ginger ale or nonalcoholic liqueur bottles, or a pot of flowers. No longer is liquor on display inside; cautious vendors now keep it under a counter, behind a partition, or in an ice box out back. In some stores a prospective purchaser must bring an introduction or answer questions, but in most of them all comers are served with cheerful uniformity...
...city," but Chicago today is as crime-ridden as ever. Last week's news was that Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone had organized the city's saloons into such a perfect chain that he was selling them not only their liquor supplies but everything down to ginger ale and table linen. So Chicagoans were not excited last week when Mayor Anton J. Cermak abruptly ousted Commissioner John Alcock and appointed in his place Captain James P. ("Iron Man" ) Allman. Mayor Cermak called his City Council into special session to whip through the appointment, had the new commissioner sworn in immediately...
With few exceptions, the public has remained the dupe of widespread dishonesty in advertising. Sometimes the none too subtle flattery of "American intelligence" does the trick. In one instance the romantic suggestion that ginger ale "aged six months" rivals fine Sauterne and that other brands are as unwholesome as very green apples was evidently successful enough to warrant the expense of a nation-wide campaign. This dishonesty in spirit is surpassed in many cases by willful misstatements of facts...