Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hops* (80% of the 1932 crop), 30,000,000 bu. of barley† (10% of the 1932 crop) and 10,000 bu. of corn (about ⅓% of the 1932 crop). But home brew, illegal brew, and ½% beer is already using part of these amounts. About 6,000,000 Ib. of hops were used for other than brewing in pre-Prohibition days. Assuming that this amount still holds, then the beer business may be said to be already operating at about 45% of its pre-Prohibition capacity. If it is going to operate at 50% the demand for raw materials...
...statisticians last week could throw cold water on the fact that an $800,000,000 industry will have to be largely rebuilt. While increased grain consumption may lag till the beer business gets back into stride, during that time the rebuilding and re-equipment business is going to be at its best. Last week F. W. Dodge Corp., trusted reporters on the building trades, set forth that $58,000,000 will be spent on breweries during the next four months in 37 States east of the Rockies, probably $65,000,000 in the nation...
...orders for bottling machinery and George J. Meyer himself wrote out and mailed a $5,000 check to the Democratic National Committee congratulating it because "at least one political party kept its pre-election campaign promise." Lumber prices in Chicago were reported up 10% to 20% on requirements for beer barrels and cases for bottled beer. All cooperage factories, like bottle factories, were last week running at capacity...
General American Tank Car Corp. last week announced contracts to furnish refrigerator cars to Schlitz, Pabst. Blatz, Miller (Milwaukee). Schoenhofen and Prima (Chicago), Goetz (St. Joseph, Mo.): had already reconditioned 500 of its 20,000 refrigerator cars for beer and expected to need 2,000 for the beer trade (in pre-Prohibition days Milwaukee shipped 43,000 carloads of beer a year). General Tank likewise laid plans for special tank cars similar to 300 once used to ship California wine...
...outlay for beer trucks was estimated to reach $12,000,000, affecting many automobile accessory makers including the makers of storage batteries since many beer trucks will probably be electric...