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...legal battle began in the Middlesex County Superior court. William C. Brewer, lawyer for Brattle Films, Inc., drew up a brief demanding that the Commissioner of Public Safety permit Miss Julie to be shown and asking for a decision on the Constitutionality of the Sunday censorship law. Assistant Attorney General Arnold H. Salisbury opposed this claim with a demurrer, a legal technicality which stated that Brattle Films could not prove any real damage, and that the blue law was Constitutional anyway. The judge agreed, and tossed the case out of court...
Deal's Off. In Beckley, W. Va., Moonshiner Major Lilly hailed a truck belonging to another home whisky brewer, wondered aloud if the driver's boss would be interested in a profitable business merger, was arrested on the spot by the driver, a Treasury agent, who was taking the truck to town to impound...
...Actually, he developed the formula with Carl Conrad, a St. Louis restaurateur, tried to match the light beer he found in the Bohemian town of Budweis. He felt that it would become more popular in the U.S. than the heavy beer then being made. He was the first big brewer to perfect refrigerated railroad cars, thus opening vast new markets in the South, installed the first pasteurization process for beer. In 1879 the name Busch first appeared in the company title, and Adolphus was well on his way to pushing beer sales past the 1,000,000-bbl. mark...
...Brewer Busch vividly remembers the night of April 7, 1933. "The crowds were singing and having a wonderful time," he recalls, "and at midnight every factory in St. Louis blew its whistle. Then the trucks rolled out of the gates and took Budweiser to bars all over St. Louis. People were backed all the way out to the curb waiting for their turn at the bar." Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks...
...presides over an industrial giant with a net worth that has grown to nearly $400 million, sales of $216 million, and profits topping $12 million in 1954. At full capacity, his three breweries across the U.S. can produce 8,990,000 bbls. of beer annually, more than any other brewer. How 1955 will turn out is anyone's guess. For the first three months Schlitz held a slight lead, but now, with Budweiser sales soaring, Busch flatly predicts that his beer will win going away...