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Vodka, 30? per bottle; Cognac, 60? to $1.95; whiskey, 75?; Malaga, 60?; port (imported), $1.95; champagne. $1.80; light wines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Tippling for Temperance | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...figured, could be a cashier, a half-brother who could be waiter, a soldier-friend who played the piano. He assembled a few tables and chairs in a room near the Madeleine. With his last few francs he sent out to an epicene for a bottle of cognac and a bottle of whiskey. A third bottle he filled with colored water, then set the lot on a display shelf and declared himself open for business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cafe Music | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...cubic yards of dirt and poured 12,000 cubic metres of concrete at Cheliabinsk since last July) waiting angrily for steel to erect the world's largest tractor factory. . . . Three hundred and eighty U. S. machinists making tractors in Stalingrad at a wage of $10 daily with cognac, wine and beer abundant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Knickerbocker Reviewed | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

James Hennessy, Three-Star cognac tycoon, won the Longchamps (France) "Royal Oak Stakes" and $12,000 with his horse Taicoun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 1930 | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...cognac is a spirit, not a wine, and as Barthe pointed out, the internationally great French scientist Pasteur (inventor of milk pasteurization) said definitively: "Wine is the most healthy and hygienic ot beverages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Traitorous Textbooks | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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