Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Linton, Ind., John ("Old John") Eddy, 77, celebrated the 41st anniversary of his emigration from England, since when he has drunk no water, because U. S. water made him "violently ill." His substitutes: tea, coffee, beer, "a moderate amount of stronger drink...
...American was selling at about 25 times probable 1935 earnings and its $5 dividend represented about 3.3% return on the cost of the stock. Continental sold up to about 23 times earnings and its $3 dividend gave the investor approximately 3% on his money. The ballyhoo over canned beer- a novelty which will not really meet its test until the summer of 1936-gave both can stocks an added fillip of enthusiasm which has been modified on second thought. Barring a slump in the 1936 fruit and vegetable pack, the future would appear to hold no menace...
...industries are livelier, more ingenious than the glass industry. Two of its most important divisions are bottle glass and flat glass. The bottle division continually wars with the tin-can industry over the packaging of products. Glass-packed coffee marked a glass advance; canned beer was a victory for tin. The flat glass division, having no outside industry to contend with, has spent its time in the improvement of its product. Most important modern development has been safety glass for automobiles. Invisible glass, flexible glass, heat-proof glass and bullet-proof glass have been more spectacular but less substantial inventions...
...about 10,000,000,000 cans. Biggest bottle company is Toledo's Owens-Illinois which last autumn made itself even bigger by acquiring Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co., a tumbler-maker not to be confused with Libbey-Owens-Ford. Owens-Illinois makes some two-thirds of all U. S. beer bottles, is therefore the bottle company most annoyed at canned beer. But Owens-Illinois' President William Edward Levis did not take canned beer lying down. Last week he announced the purchase of two tin can factories-Tin Decorating Co. of Baltimore and Enterprise Can Co. of McKees Rocks...
...Senate, Texas' Tom Connally, who heard President Wilson's War message as a fledgling Representative, reared up and roared: "Some checker-playing, beer-drinking back room of some low house is the only place fit for the kind of language which the Senator from North Dakota puts into the record about a dead man, a great man, a good man. and a man who, when alive, had the courage to meet his enemies face to face. . . . This committee . . . comes back like a ghoul, a historical ghoul, to desecrate the sacred resting place of the honored dead...