Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...castle on the Rhine, at Langenschwalbach in Prussia, dainty town, famed for its iron and carbonic waters. Adolphus Busch had money, stupendous amounts to the minds of his castle servants and the country folk. His breweries at St. Louis, Vereinigten Staaten, were making. 1,599,459 barrels of good beer every year. His maroon-painted trucks with the spread-eagle trademark rumbled through every large U. S. city delivering cases of beer to barrooms, clubs and homes. He was wealthy. It was Kolossal, his casual hiring of entire hotels to ac commodate his guests for a season...
...Light wines and beer cannot be legalized without another Constitutional Amendment...
...Beer vs. Radio...
...Beer and radio are now two of the leading commodities in England. The rise of these and other new industries has so astonished and paralyzed the English people that they have no ability to meet the new conditions. And therein lies the essential reason for the economic prosperity of America and the depression of England, with its resultant Labor agitation. Instead of theorizing and regretting new conditions. America meets them, and makes the best of them, while Englishmen are at a loss for a course of action...
...fashioned whiskey glass contained 2 oz., 8 to the pint. Good foreign brandy contains 50% absolute alcohol, good wine 10%, good beer 5%. To become dead drunk, according to these scientific calculations, would require 1% quarts of brandy, 7% quarts of wine, 1¼ cases of beer...