Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakeasy; they claim that it will be able to undersell the legal restaurants and taverns. This is impossible, for to exist they must charge exorbitant prices in order to meet the expense of bringing in or making the illicit liquor. Who will pay prices that are equal to, if not more than, our prices to go speaking around drinking bad liquor...
...prices of the liquor offered yesterday and predicted for the future were, to put it plainly, absurd. Gin, the equal of which anyone can make for fifty cents a quart, was on the market at about two dollars; whiskey, particularly the better variety, was selling at a prohibitive price, and the cost of imported wines assumed astronomical proportions. These unfortunate circumstances have been laid off variously to taxes, protection of home industries, and to what retailers vaguely call "high wholesale charges." The fairly evident fact that the manufacturers are putting on the screws in the face of a great demand...
...This department is the backfield. The choices leave the secondary with a decided military tinge. But the Army backfield seems to be about the best that has appeared here this fall and although Sebastian is relegated to the second team, his vicious blocking and sturdy line-bucking earn him equal honors with the first-stringer, Britt of the Crusaders. Britt had a punch through the line that caused Harvard plenty of trouble. The second backfield almost explains itself although Morris of Holy Cross should rate almost even with Karaban of Brown in the fullback berth. There was some hesitation...
...militarists had any effect on her strong-minded gold miners. They continued to smuggle, to hoard. Last week the Government loosened up a little. With gold worth around $33 per ounce in Manhattan and London the legal price in Tokyo was raised to 9.94 yen per momme (equal to 3.75 grammes) which worked out that day at $25.81 an ounce...
...passing of the eighteenth amendment, it is incredible to me that the citizens of this state should be willing to accept dictation by another small group, that is to say by those men who made large profits by the old liquor traffic and hope to make an equal amount by the new regulation," concluded Mrs. Lovett