Word: ferment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald D. Conn, will no longer sell or "service" Vine-Glo grape concentrate. Instead the company's other concentrates?Virginia Dare, Wine-Haven, Guasti?will be sold unserviced "for soft drinks as usual. "If anyone still wants to let Virginia Dare, Wine-Haven or Guasti sit 60 days and ferment like Vine-Glo into wine, Fruit Industries will not and does not want to know anything about...
...applejack or blackberry wine on the legal fiction that it was a non-intoxicating fruit-juice for home consumption. Soon shrewd vine-yardists seized upon Section 29 to supply the wine wants of city folk. Virginia Dare Vineyards, Inc. promised to ship a grape juice that would ferment into champagne in the home and thus be quite legal (TIME, Aug. 6, 1928). Seeking new markets for their grapes, seven California co-operatives in 1929 merged as Fruit Industries, Inc., joined the California Grape Control Board, obtained and shared a $10,000.000 loan from the Federal Farm Board, hired as their...
That Sun has quit Chiang and gone to Chen is ominous. China is in slow ferment, with Russia helping the brew. So slow is the ferment that last week the American Congregational Mission got tired of waiting for a stable Chinese Government to emerge, ended a work of 50 years, withdrew all their missionaries from the province of Fukien. excepting Foochow, abandoned much property bought with U. S. dollars, abandoned their hospital at Shaowu...
...problem lay in the heavy duty of $40 a ton on the sugar-syrup which it imported from Cuba. Consultants Johnston and Cutting were called in. They found that if the solution were 48% sugar instead of 68% the duty would be 83^ a ton. But this solution would ferment within ten days. Hence they suggested that syrup ships halt at the three-mile limit while the syrup was being mixed with water to reduce its sugar content. They charged that the company had promised to let them patent the idea and then to buy it for at least...
...Canadian Kiwanis Club. It honors Warren Gamaliel Harding, only President of the U. S. to visit Canada while in office, whose reception at Vancouver shortly preceded his death in San Francisco. But Vancouver Kiwanians squirmed with discomfort last week. Other thoughtful citizens deplored. U. S. visitors were in a ferment of indignation. For, despite many a protest, Vancouver's loud evening Sun ("Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal Sleuth Gaston B. Means (TIME, March 31). The U. S. Consul General was besieged with outraged demands for formal...