Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unique development of the convention's lighter side was a free, three-day beer party given by Anheuser-Busch on the grounds of its famed brewery on the banks of the Mississippi. More than 100,000 guests were served by 80 bartenders who put out the brew so fast that it had to be supplied from freight cars shunted up on a siding. Host was Adolphus A. Busch Jr., whose aged grandmother Lilly, caught in her native Germany when the War broke out, was callously stripped and searched as a spy at Key West when she finally got back...
...most elaborate display of individual and public drunkenness since 1920. In Jack Dempsey's saloon, grizzled old J. F. ("Jafsie"') Condon told his life history to a stranger from Wisconsin. At a nearby table, Bruno Richard Hauptmann's lawyer, Lloyd Fisher, glared into a beer glass. At 5 o'clock in the morning, a bartender named Mike Hurley and 13 friends sat down in an East Side coffeepot to a breakfast of beer and a 50-lb. tuna fish, cut in steaks, which they ate down to the tail. In the Stork Club, where celebrities...
...National Can Co. has been supplying cans for beer since early in July 1935 (although your article does not even credit us with being in production...
...making shipments of cans for beer and ale in large quantities daily. Certainly if the can lining was not satisfactory we would not have been able to make continued shipments. The Schwarz Laboratories of 202 East 44th St., New York City, recognized independent authorities in the Brewery Industry, have continuously tested National Can linings and state definitely that our lining "is in all respects satisfactory." S. L. BUSCHMAN...
...National Can Co. all credit for able beer-canning...