Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winemakers in the U.S. Founded in 1881 by Genoa-born Andrea Sbarbaro as a collectivist colony modeled after the cooperative theories of John Ruskin and Robert Owen, Italian Swiss Colony's skilled winemakers gained a reputation for fine dry wines. Although it still makes dry table wines, the bulk of Italian Swiss Colony's output is now sweet dessert wines, which are easier to make, and appeal more to American palates...
...company was selling so much bulk wine in kegs that Louis Petri quit St. Louis University's medical school to start rolling barrels in his family's San Francisco warehouse. He soon convinced his father that keg distribution was outmoded, launched a program to bottle the company's wine under the Petri label and distribute it nationally. (Today, less than 10% of Petri's output is in bulk.) He also expanded Petri's more profitable sweet wine business while holding on to Petri's dry wine market. By 1945, having learned the business from...
Wineman's Choice. Last week, after a frost in the San Joaquin Valley nipped vines and sent the price of sweet wine in bulk up to 37½? a gal. (from a low of 32½?), many a vintner thought Petri had made a smart buy. To swing the deal for Italian Swiss Colony, he had borrowed from the Bank of America. That the bank was willing to plunge into the precarious winemaking business was a pat on the back for Petri...
...Senators did not plan it that way. They hoped the press and radio would communicate their case to the public. Then voters realizing what a titanic grab the bill is, would change some other Senators' minds. But the bulk of the stories in the press and air concern only cloture plans, baggy-cyed Senators, and plans to set up cots in the cloakroom. The only publications carrying the speeches are the Congressional Record, and the Democratic newspapers. The first is hardly a mass medium, and readers of the second are already convinced...
Highlight of the weekend, the formal dance, will be held tomorrow evening in the Union. Two orchestras will provide continuous music: George Wein's Storyville Band will play for the bulk of the evening, while Al Drootin and his orchestra will play during intermission...