Word: brews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Raki. The Turkish Government decided to sell an alcoholic drink called "people's raki," despite the fact that Mohammedanism, to which religion the bulk of the Turkish nation belongs, prohibits intoxicating beverages. A concession to brew raki was given originally to a Polish group, but because the public complained that it was adulterated and caused blindness, and also because they refused to buy it, the concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey...
...burden of Mr. Lowell's remarks on this occasion were apropriately to the contrary as he pointed out a philosophical escape. Personal success need not turn to ashes and bitter brew if only regarded as the means to a greater end. We need not fall back completely on the scant solace which comes with the final realization that happiness accompanied the labor itself and not the material fruits of the labor, that we must enjoy in retrospect...
...Builder"; he would run the gangsters out of Chicago and let them go to St. Louis, Detroit, New York; he would "make the streets safe so that women and children can go to the movies at night"; he would not let the police go "sniffing around for home brew"; he might go after the presidency...
...minister until they read a news story. . . . No one has tried to take advantage of me because I am a preacher. . . . Strictly cash basis . . . the store is open for a short time on Sunday. . . . I have lots of calls for malt and other articles used in making home-brew . . . do not handle them. . . . I'd like to see sharper teeth put into the [prohibition] law . . . only $1,100 is still owed on the $4,000 building . . . membership of my church has grown in three years from 18 to 125 . . . religion and business...
August A. Busch had anticipated Prohibition by manufacturing "Bevo," a grain drink. Although his heart was not in its manufacture, he developed a great volume of sales for this brew. (He personally directs his company's advertising and promotion work; lays out campaigns; analyzes sales posbilities.) In making Bevo, he explained in last week's issue of Forbes: "We hardly proved ourselves prophets. We failed to diagnose correctly in advance the psychological reactions of the people to Prohibition legislation. We did not foresee the lessened respect for law which actually developed. We never anticipated the enormous increase which...