Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most convivial U. S. winners were Willie and John Behrens, proprietors of a Brooklyn delicatessen. Although they won only $75,000 with a ticket on the horse that finished second, they spent the day dispensing free beer. Total prizes distributed in last week's Sweepstakes, which took in $14,000,000 amounted to $8.300,000. Of the $4,300,000 which came to the U. S. the Government will get some $1,500,000 in taxes...
...Richmond, Radio Patrolmen Herman Bock and Andrew Beer arrested a Negro for stealing four cases of whiskey from Charles Bender...
Most remarkable criminal confession obtained by Reporter Rogers was in the middle 1920s, when Charles Birger and his gunmen were terrorizing "Bloody Williamson" County in southern Illinois. Impressing the Birger mob by his revolver marksmanship on empty beer bottles, Reporter Rogers became so chummy with a thug named Arthur Newman that in 1927 Newman confessed to the Post-Dispatch how he and Birger had murdered State Policeman Lory Price and his wife. Officials had never been able to find Mrs. Price's body; Rogers' revelations located it in an abandoned mine shaft. Newman was jailed for life. Charlie...
...company into air conditioning. Progress was slow. As late as 1920 there were only 40 on Trane's payroll, only 159 by 1927. Today the total is nearly 1,000. On the day the new plant was opened last month with speeches, dancing and free beer, all the La Crosse employes chipped in to buy a half-page newspaper advertisement, surprising their boss with a THANK YOU, MR. TRANE...
...records of the Cambridge Fire Department, but firemen agreed that it was a now one on them yesterday afternoon in Brattle Square when they were called upon to extinguish cribs, baby carriages, bed-pots, and other articles of infant paraphernalia in a truck whose exterior was inaptly labelled "Beer and Wine...