Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blond, barrel-chested Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia, Prussian Minister of the Interior, President of the Reichstag, Reich Minister of Aviation, has a multitude of gaudy self-designed uniforms differing from those of other Nazis. Last week, to set off the doeskin military cloak that has attracted much attention of late, he acquired a new pair of trousers, blazing with the broad scarlet stripes of an honorary General of Infantry...
Hofer is a great name in the Tyrol. Bearded, barrel-chested Tyrolean Patriot Andreas Hofer, most faithful friend of the House of Habsburg, captured Innsbruck twice from French and Bavarian troops during the Napoleonic wars, was captured by Italian troops and executed at Mantua in 1810 under Napoleon's orders. His tomb is a shrine for Austrian patriotism. From the Tyrol too comes Franz Hofer, an Austrian Nazi. No friend of the Habsburgs, eager to see his country absorbed by Ger- many, Nazi Hofer unwittingly added 8,000 men to the little Austrian Army, and brought the active support...
Oilmen heard, however, that the P. C. C. had decided to ask President Roosevelt this week to go ahead and price-fix. The ratio tentatively set is a barrel of crude at 18½-times the price of gasoline per gallon...
...paper for 30 years, except for the period from 1860-62 when a religious group edited it and held noon prayer meetings in the city room. Then in 1868 a group of investors headed by Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, moved it lock, stock & barrel to the fusty old building on Nassau Street...
Largely in the hands of small family companies, the beer barrel business is booming wherever and whenever whiteoak staves, air-dried for at least two years, can be obtained. Kiln-dried staves are disdained by some brewers though their makers assert they are in no way inferior. Meantime brewers are scouring Europe to make up the 6,000,000 kegs that the U. S. needs to bring its inventory to pre-Prohibition levels. In June alone $1,000,000 worth of kegs were imported from Germany. Using U. S. labor and fittings Dr. Hammer turns out 4,000 kegs...