Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of political wars the Organization had grown stronger and resistance had diminished. Critics of the boss were never free of the fear that they might find themselves in court-before a Crump judge. There was always the chance of being beaned with a beer bottle at a nightclub, of getting beaten up in a mysterious street fight or simply being slugged by Memphis police, as were two overenthusiastic C.I.O. organizers in 1937. Memphis newspapermen did not forget one election night in 1928, when every reporter in sight was thrown into jail for threatened breach of the peace, a handily...
...hangover cause was clear. Strikes and material shortages have thwarted production and profits for such sponsors as Chrysler, General Motors, General Electric. Sugar and grain shortages have hit such food & beverage advertisers as General Foods, Ballantine Beer, Tootsie Rolls, Pepsi-Cola. Further, the advertising dollar is not as cheap as it was in wartime, when most of it came out of taxes. Many have wondered if radio advertising is worth even a cheap dollar...
...best performance last week was that of a mute who didn't sing a note. This week Menotti's seven-year-old opera bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan...
...Beer & Bicycles. Confidence in Holland's future pervades the moist spring air. The Royal Dutch Airlines is resuming biweekly flights to New York in a few weeks. Trains between Amsterdam and The Hague, which last year took seven hours to make a trip, are back on their old schedules and running every hour. The famed Heineken Brewery at Amsterdam is opening again. Philips, Europe's greatest exporters of electric bulbs and radio equipment, is operating at 60% of capacity, expects to hit 100% soon. The Dutch, who use bicycles as Americans use autos, may have to wait until...
...Orleans last week an airplane arrived from North Dakota-and a famed restaurant had 760 Ibs. of butter at 90? a Ib. In Wisconsin it was cheese, butter, and hijacked beer which filtered through illegal channels. In New York City, men's clothing dealers bought low-priced suits from an ethical low-priced retailer, substituted their own labels for his and sold the suits for twice what they had cost. In Colorado it was grain-running to sheep and cattle feeders. In Iowa it was almost anything the farmer's heart desired for a couple of carloads...