Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharing in the general optimism were the restaurants. An owner explained that when the weather takes a turn for the sultry, the amount of dinning hall checks falls off steadily. Beer consumption shoots up, but this is more than balanced by the lessened demand for hard liquor...
...package store described a hot-weather increase in ice sales, but stated that their beer and hard liquor sales had remained just about even...
...madder. Detroit newspapers, which covered Rose City's uproar for all it was worth, discovered that Scott had been arrested in 1931 for drunken driving in Flint, in fact was converted to religion a short three years ago after a nondescript career as a salesman, industrial worker and beer-truck driver...
Bugsy was born 42 years ago in New York's dingy Lower East Side. He got his start as a night watchman for a gang of beer runners. Petulant as a small boy he went "bughouse" when crossed, but he was cunning, and he earned the respect of New York City's top crooks. When he hooked up with Meyer Lansky, New York ranked him as one of the "Big Six." He beat raps for rape, carrying concealed weapons, possessing narcotics, and murder. In 1933, Murder, Inc. was branching out. Bugsy, a member, set up western headquarters in Hollywood...
...Cold beer will once again be served by smiling waiters, with pretzels for those who missed their dinner in order to be on hand...