Word: busches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Within a fortnight after his resignation as general manager of the Chicago White Sox, Frank Lane, 59, one of baseball's most astute player traders, signed a three-year contract to be general manager of August A. Busch's seventh-place St. Louis Cardinals...
...engine, it has revved up more horsepower in less time than any industrial engine in history. Patented in 1892 by Germany's Rudolf Diesel (who committed suicide in 1913 because he thought his engine had backfired), the first diesel was brought to the U.S. by Beer Baron Adolphus Busch for use in his St. Louis brewery...
...Smith, as well as F.D.R., received one of the first legal cases from the Busch family. It was delivered by wagon drawn by four span of Clydesdales to the Empire State Building...
...interesting as the article might be to many of us native St. Louisans as well as to millions of others who are deeply grateful to the Busch family for what they have done for America, St. Louis and the beer industry, I am not so sure that you are entirely correct in saying "When Prohibition was finally repealed . . . 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 ..."... As I recall it, the first case...
TIME again has uncovered heretofore unrecognized evidence on a vital issue: in the biographical sketch of Gussie Busch of our beer nobility, noting decreased sales of beer; attention was called to diversions, including the do-it-yourself movement, made possible by unprecedented income and leisure of the common run of Americans. Such diversions, it was suggested, could account for less dependence on alcoholic drinks for relief from boredom. This is evidence that Americans are not being led into debauchery by prosperity and the five-day week...