Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, the tradesmen of Boston took over the problem where the law-givers had ceased, handling it with approximately the same acumen. Near beer was sold to trusting customers, who believed they were actually quenching their alcoholic thirsts; a barrel of the beverage was, and is sold by the glass at a hundred per cent profit. While the tax imposed is high, the profits reaped by retailers and brewers are higher, and the people, willing to pay any sum at first, are bearing the burden...
...fell behind Busch. Then came the war which caught him (like Frau Lily ) in Germany. He did not get back until 1918 and although a U. S. citizen had to fight to get his brewery back from the U. S. Government which had seized it. A fine, mustachioed, barrel-chested brewer of the old school, although he had three sons, he kept the reins of power. He could nob believe that Prohibition would ever come, was aghast when it did, believed it would soon end and struggled on making less & less near-beer. He died in 1926, aged 92, much...
...stand against the President's economy bill fortnight ago, he retrieved some of his lost prestige by sponsoring the Administration's beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed a $5 per barrel tax, required brewers to take out a $1,000 Federal license. Re-enacted was the old Webb-Kenyon law to protect Dry States from Wet Shipments...
Europe has unmistakably taken on the aspect of a powder barrel. Divided as it is, into two main camps, it would need only a reckless move to precipitate a general conflict. France, Poland, and the Little Entente of Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Jugoslavia are ranged against Germany, Austria, and Hungary, with Italy and England relatively unknown factors. The recent Arms Shipment incident would seem to place Italy with Austria, and England with France. In such a case, the preponderance of France and her allies would be so marked as to make the result a foregone conclusion. Economically, the Central European powers...
...demanded free drinks. The young bartender set up one on the house. That only made things worse. The boy, thoroughly frightened, snatched a revolver from the till and fired wildly over the crowd's heads. First shot sprang a delicate golden fountain from the side of a whiskey barrel and reversed the riot. The barflies rolled on the floor with gaping mouths and tore at each other's clothes. Somebody upset the lamp and started a fire just as the proprietor walked in the door...