Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's end, when four-year-old whisky is expected to be plentiful, liquor men will face a big sales problem. During wartime, when aged whisky was scarce, distillers stretched the supply by blending it. (i.e., mixing it with grain alcohol). They plugged blends so well-and straights were so hard to get-that now six bottles of blended whisky are sold for every one bottle of straight (compared with a prewar ratio of one-for-one). Distillers will have to do more than cut blend prices; they will have to lure drinkers back to straight whisky, probably...
...market's cheer was short-lived After a second 1,800,000-share day anc a much smaller rise, trading ebbed off and stocks sagged the next two days At week's end they had lost most of their gains...
Withdrawal of support did not mean that the studios would stop lobbying for their own pictures. And, as Hersholt quickly pointed out, an Oscar was not just an artistic laurel but a box-office lure as well. At week's end, apparently reconciled to the latest twist of the tightened Hollywood economy, the academy's board of governors decided that the money would have to be scraped up somewhere else, but the Oscars would carry...
...investigations, Jimmy was caught in a police raid on a gambling casino, escaped arrest by pulling on a waiter's apron and sitting down to a plate of beans in the kitchen.) In September 1932, with Walker's sudden resignation, hearings on the charges came to an end...
...foot, four-inch, 230 pound transfer student from Notre Dame, where he was first string end, Guthrie started out playing end here. Art Valpey shifted him to tackle when he reported for practice in September and after the Army game, tried Guthrie out at defensive end...