Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt obliged to deny them in open Senate. Last week Mr. Mellon debarked from the Leviathan in Manhattan on his 78th birthday, quietly parried newshawks' questions. He said he had heard his successor, spruce young Judge Robert Worth Bingham of Kentucky, "favorably commented on" in London. Asked whether "beer will help much." he said, "What do you mean, help the thirsty?" Asked if he would rest now, he said: "Nobody rests. But I will be free, and I think I have reached an age when I am entitled to be free...
...George Herman ("Babe") Ruth: his annual argument with Colonel Jacob Ruppert, beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, about salary; by $2,000; in St. Petersburg, Fla. After absolutely refusing to pay Ruth more than $50,000 for one year ($25,000 less than last year), Colonel Ruppert, presumably in good humor at the passage of the beer bill, gave in last week, hurried north to | see to his brewery...
...forecast the nature of a dead industry about to be brought to life. Millions of dollars of profits depended on correctly gauging the size, the requirements, the effect upon their own concerns of the resurrected brewing industry. Basic criterion, to be modified by current conditions, were facts about the beer industry before it died thirteen years...
...brewed 60 million 31-gallon barrels of beer a year...
...large part of this old equipment has been scrapped, is obsolete, ruined by time and neglect or converted to other uses. Last year only 2,700,000 barrels of ½% beer were sold. The Treasury in planning on beer taxes estimated the production capacity of the U. S. today at 20 to 30 million barrels in a year. On the assumption that 30 million barrels of beer will be made in the next twelve months, the requirements of the brewing industry in labor and raw materials ought to be about half what it was formerly...