Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. To Dr. William Francis Beer, Salt Lake City surgeon who performed 300 successful operations on interned Germans during the War: the German Red Cross Medal, first decoration conferred by Germany upon a U. S. citizen for wartime services; by President von Hindenburg...
...people knew just who he was. More of the collection appeared at the Waldorf-Astoria, in Chicago at Marshall Field's, at the Fair. Last week Collector Hammer bobbed up in the news with the announcement that he had two U. S. cooperage plants running full blast making beer kegs from Russian whiteoak staves. Sensing the beer keg shortage he had wangled out of Moscow last May a contract for the entire Russian output of the proper air-dried wood...
...rode about Havana at night firing into the air and were accused of shooting down both Oppositionists and bystanders in ruthless efforts to obey Chief Ainciart's order: "Break the strikes!' Tourist steamers, fearing to dock at Havana, passed up the port. Supplies of meat, bread, oils, beer and other Cuban necessities ran alarmingly low, while prices skyrocketed. With panic spreading, Cubans remembered that Mediator Welles delivered in Havana two months ago a message from the White House in which President Roosevelt said: "I am convinced that the restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step...
...rubber had no odor, it might find profitable uses in milk cans, beer vats and food containers. Last week from London came news that two chemists of the Rubber Growers' Association had located and practically eliminated rubber's inherent smell...
...foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there was always a bouncer in a dark hallway to knock him down, pick his pockets, roll him into the gutter...