Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys together to hear Crusader Clark's story ^that the Crusaders were going to start a Junior Division and had picked Lawrenceville to be, among 15,000 U. S. schools, the First Battalion. Whether or not the young gentlemen of Lawrenceville, where the Tennessee Shad once used beer for Welsh rabbits, were unanimously excited by Crusader Clark's earnest explanation of the need for repealing the 18th Amendment and for "strict control of the liquor traffic," the evening's results were 100%. Dr. Abbott formed the First Battalion by a method which should prove useful in other...
...director of that company. Great, considering Depression, has been Mr. Levis' success with bottles. Depression cut Owens-Illinois' profits from $4,451,000 in 1929 to $2,067,000 last year, but this year what Prohibition took away it has partly given back. Three weeks before beer became legal Owens-Illinois' orders already amounted to 55,000,000 bottles. Last week Owens-Illinois had its 20 plants working at full capacity. What is more. Mr. Levis could cock a snook at technocrats: although with present machinery the output per man per day in his factories...
...Francisco exulted last week, a town in New Jersey mourned. That town was Lakewood (pop. 5,000). Jewish winter resort, known for good Jersey applejack, for the beer at its Elks Club, for John D. Rockefeller's estate there (which he seldom uses). Lakewood was "town" for the Lakehurst Naval Air Station five miles away. It thrived on the station's $500,000 annual payroll, and on the visitations of newshawks and sightseers, all of which are now lost to Sunnyvale. Lakewood hoped that the evil day might be deferred by luring the Macon to Lakehurst for inspection...
...patterned after Vienna's famed Hotel Sacher - to pursue his mistress to her husband's apartment, with arrogant instructions to the other guests to keep the party alive until he returns. Song of the Eagle (Paramount). If you care to pursue the misfortunes of a family of beer brewers during the years 1916 to 1933, you can do so by seeing this picture. One of old Otto Hoffman's sons is killed in the War. With the arrival of Prohibition, his best barrel-roller (Charles Bickford) turns 'legger. Hoffman (Jean Hersholt) patiently awaits the day when...
...Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst) left Empress Elizabeth (Mrs. Vincent Astor) to pay his respects to Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan's big old board chairman, who was not in costume but stayed up to the very end. Upstairs the sedate refreshment room had been transformed into a beer garden with a gambling salon leading off it. Next winter in that refreshment room, grey-haired, flat-faced Emil Katz will go on serving sandwiches and coffee as he has done since the days when his idol, Anton Seidl, was conducting at the Metropolitan. Even with the $300,000 raised...