Word: dewar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurdle is a $5-a-gallon tariff which will probably be upped to stimulate domestic grain consumption. DCL, like Bacardi, has taken its time about the U. S. market, has kept liquormen with their tongues hanging out over who was to sell Johnny Walker, Haig & Haig, Dewar and Gordon gin. The assignment of only two brands was definitely known so late as last week: Black & White to National Distillers and Johnny Walker to Canada...
Distillers Co., Ltd., Britain's monster whiskey trust, has kept U. S. liquormen in a dither all summer. Its dozens of brands include most of the best known Scotch whiskeys and the world's leading gin-Gordon's. Like Bacardi, Johnny Walker, John Haig, White Horse, Dewar's, etc. are probably more widely known in the U. S. today (through faked labels) than they were before Prohibition. Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business. Wined & dined by nearly every U. S. liquorman...
...cage, the Toronto goalie, Shipp, prevented a score by some miraculous stops during the first 15 minutes of the Harvard offense. It was not until the second period that the Canadians let loose a terriffic barrage of shots on deGive who was unable to stop the puck six times. Dewar, who played at defense for the opponents, checked Harvard's advance and stole the rubber so often that the Crimson seemed powerless. A pass from Dewar enabled Hendry to make the first tally with a long slam that passed over deGive's shoulder to light the red bulb...
...Mary's sextet Wednesday night, plans to start the same men against Toronto, as he did against the westerners, with the possible exception of McGregor, who is suffering from a cold. HARVARD TORONTO Baldwin, l.w. r.w., Cunningham Wood, c. c., Brant Cunningham, r.w. l.w., Murray Palmer, l.d. r.d., Dewar McGregor or Martin, r.d. l.d., Smillie de Give, g. g., Funston
...Lord Rosebery's Sandwich: the St. Leger, oldest horse-race in England, at Doncaster. Yorkshire, in which the favorite, John Arthur Dewar's Derby-winner Cameronian. came in last...