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LIQUOR PRICES will be boosted, first general increase since Prohibition that has not been brought on by higher Government excise taxes. Publicker Industries (Old Hickory, Embassy Club) and Joseph Seagram & Sons (Calvert, Four Roses) have decided to pass on rising production costs with 4% increase at wholesale level, or an average 35? more per fifth at retail. Rest of industry will probably follow suit...
...Charles Calvert of Maryland, by John Hesselius, is one of the finest surviving examples of early Southern portraiture. The five-year-old subject, a great-great-great-grandson of Maryland's founder, stands like a general in full regalia ordering his troops to advance. But Calvert has the dreamy look of a little boy who wonders how soon he can go out to play. His personal slave seems the better actor...
...Calvert Distillers Corporation President W. W. Wachtel pointed out that moonshiners can't even make good whiskey because their operations are neither large nor modern enough. Their spirits contain too much nerve-deadening amylalcohol, which causes sickening hangovers, he said...
...C.I.T., the nation's No. 2 auto-finance company). Service Fire had put more than three-quarters of its policyholders in Class Two, the most expensive risk group, although most of them belonged in Class One, the lowest premium category.* Subsequently, five more companies (Cavalier, Marathon, Consolidated Lloyds, Calvert Fire, Home Service) also were found to be overcharging. All the offenders complained that it was impossible to get enough information to classify policyholders properly. But the Texas commissioners pointed to the fact that Motors Insurance, subsidiary of General Motors Acceptance Corp., the nation's No. 1 auto-finance...
...your article anent the new Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden . . . you say two of Eden's brothers, Timothy and Nicholas, were killed. When last heard of in 1949, Sir Timothy Calvert Eden was going strong as eighth baronet, and so to speak, chief of the family tong. It was John Eden-the eldest of four brothers of whom Timothy was second, Anthony third and Nicholas fourth - who was killed in the Kaiser's war in France . . . Nicholas, a midshipman, died in the Battle of Jutland...