Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted the privilege due to the State law. Since half the men in the Houses are minors, half of the market is immediately curtailed. Friends will not separate for meals, and the red tape involved in proving one's age tends to make a pleasure a burden. Secondly, beer was advocated before the repeal of Prohibition when 3.2 brew first became legal. The enthusiasm with which undergraduates greeted the harder liquors took away from the attractions of beer. And last of all, beer has failed to catch Harvard's fancy. This may be due to the age restrictions...
Upperclassmen, who are annoyed to find empty tables in crowded dining halls reserved for men over twenty-one, will not be surprised to read this morning that the restoration of beer to the Houses threatens the College with a thousand dollar deficit. The early expectations that Harvard men would revel in absorbing large quantities of the beverage have been disappointed by the evidence...
...eagle of Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch mailed to its stockholders its first annual report ever certified by an outside firm of accountants. Messrs. Haskins & Sells did not cast up the Anheuser-Busch statements for any army of public investors. The brewery of the world's most widely distributed beer has less than 200 stockholders. And were it not for the few thousand shares that have dribbled into public hands in the last few years, a single report handed around at a family reunion of the descendants of a lusty German immigrant named Adolphus Busch and his father-in-law Eberhard...
...certified statements issued last week revealed little about the conservative old concern except its profits since Beer. Heavy expenses for renovating its brewing business held last year's earnings to a measly $325,000. Even more has been spent on improvements so far this year, but in the seven months through July Anheuser-Busch made...
...House of Anheuser-Busch today stands for many things besides beer. Founder Adolphus' son August Busch managed to pay small dividends pretty regularly through the dry years by making near-beer, yeast, malt and corn syrups, truck bodies, cabinets, Bevo, ice-cream, ginger ale, Diesel engines for U. S. submarines. Other interests include a local coal company, the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, Tex. and the tiny St. Louis & O'Fallon Ry. whose valuation case in the Supreme Court made railroad history. August Busch died by his own hand two months after Repeal (TIME, Feb. 19). Adolphus Busch...