Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were receiving orders for insulation of brewery vats. General Motors announced that the Frigidaire plants at Dayton had jumped from three-to six-day-a-week production, had in the last month spent $1,100,000 for new plant equipment. Reason: daily production of 300 units for cooling draft beer and new home refrigerators with space for a full case of beer...
These items enter into the rehabilitation of the beer manufacturing industry but do not include large secondary effects from beer retailing. Hotels and restaurants have reason to expect increased income with beer sales. Other drinking places must be built and remodelled. All must have new equipment. Items for which demand was last week reported high...
...Beer glasses and mugs, mirrors, linen, uniforms for barkeeps and barmaids, cabinet work including paneling for bars, murals, mosaic and composition floorings; also sausage, pretzels, pickles...
...Beerage. If there had been an Almanach de Gotha of beer, its publishers after a 13-year lapse might hardly know how to start again, so many have been the changes. Yet the publishers would certainly know where to begin: with B for the Busches of Budweiser, unquestionably the foremost house of the beerage, a house which one year produced 1,650,000 barrels,* an alltime record. Adolphus, the founder of the Busch line, was the hearty offshoot of a wealthy Busch family of Mainz on the Rhine. He arrived in the U. S. in 1857, aged 15, served...
Adolphus' son August lived on through much more trying times, lived through the war-hatred of Germans, through the threats of Prohibition (to counteract which he put out Bevo, near-beer that sold well in Dry States until Prohibition actually arrived and 'legging began), through Prohibition itself with the necessity of trying to make money out of near-beer, malt syrup, and back to Repeal. Meantime he has carried on the Busch tradition of generosity (generosity is made of rubber: one of his servants died in 1929 and left him $19,000). Somewhat high-eyebrowed by some...