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...highly specialized six-week business, running from August to October. Tomatoes are brought to the factory the day they are picked on the farm, usually no more than 75 miles away. The juice is forced under mechanical pressure through a fine screen to form a smooth liquid. The brew is poured into vats for heating, and if cocktails are to be made, spices are stirred in with paddles. Formulas for mixing, always secret, usually vary in different tomato localities. Midwest tomatoes are inclined to be acidic, eastern tomatoes smoother, blander, California tomatoes sweetest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tomato Week | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

Drillers of Cleveland Petroleum Corp., burrowing in the apple orchard of U. S. Senator John G. Townsend Jr. and partner near Bridgeville, Del., struck oil. They packed up some samples, drove co town. One look at the sticky, black brew was enough to send real estate men scurrying to their telephones. Mortgage-ridden farmers soon heard tales of fabulous land prices. One who had been trying to sell his plot for a few hundred dollars was offered $1,500. "I wouldn't take $4,000 for it now," said he. Storekeepers got ready to pitch hot dog stands near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Oil's Week | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Producer P. T. Barnum, an expounder of temperance, never allowed anything stronger than beer served in his auditorium. But the thrifty showman must stir in his grave, into which he was lowered 43 years ago last week, at the amount of the brew given gratis at the American Music Hall. Lavishly distributed by Producer Harry C. Bannister. Cinemactress Ann Harding's divorced husband, round after round appears, during the performance and after, when the cast descends among the guests and encourages one & all to join in singing old favorites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Back to Barnum | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Reunion in Vienna. Last week Actor Morgan put on his nattiest suit, gave his mustache an extra twist and became a businessman. In Manhattan he was elected vice president of a company distributing a famed concoction whose secret formula he will never know. The company: Angostura-Wuppermann. The brew: Angostura-bitters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bitters Family | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...president and treasurer of Angostura-Wuppermann, sole agents for Angostura bitters in the U. S., Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault in Trinidad, another in a vault in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bitters Family | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

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