Word: bro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Results are startling. Bemis Bro. Bag Co., No. 1 U.S. bagmaker, last week reported that, while burlap-bag output was down 80%, cotton-and paper-bag production was up 50%. This switch was cheap: a few ingenious adjustments immediately converted burlap-bag machines to cotton; paper-bag facilities were enlarged and slapped on longer schedules. Meantime Lend-Lease and military bag orders piled in. Thus, instead of starving on the jute shortage, Bemis Bro.-and most other U.S. bagmakers-are serving the war effort by the highest production ever...
Little Harry Mencken, "a larva of the comfortable and complacent bourgeoisie," was the eldest son of August of Aug. Mencken & Bro., cigar makers. August's brother Henry, called Hen, lived next door, and in summers they all took a double house in the country. Little Harry went to F. Knapp's Institute, whose headmaster still wore "the classical uniform of a German schoolmaster-a long-tailed coat of black alpaca, a boiled shirt with somewhat fringy cuffs, and a white lawn necktie...