Word: foams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supreme confidence in his ability to sell anything," continued Judge Barnes, relating how Mr. Skinner tampered with the brewmaster's formulas and watered the beer 80%. "To his surprise and the disaster of the debtor [Prima] it was found that beer drinkers want not only color and foam but that they also want a particular kind of disagreeable taste...
Sometimes when waves are beating strongly on a beach, an extraordinary outward current of returning water develops, clashes with oncoming breakers, creates a zone of roil and foam called "rip tide." Last week just such a countercurrent of public opinion was beginning to run stronger & stronger against the surging Sit-Down. Governors White of Mississippi, worried about a pajama factory sitdown, and Allred of Texas, worried about the C. I. O. oil drive starting this week, announced that they would oppose Sit-Downs with all the force at their command. With many a State legislature discussing the subject, Vermont...
...Ohio the river which gives the State its name went hog wild, first broke all records established in the 1913 flood, then proceeded to top the even more disastrous inundations of 1884. Full of foam, mud and debris, the Scioto River swept down on Portsmouth, which seven years ago threw up a $750,000 sea wall of steel & concrete to keep the Scioto and Ohio away from its doors. Last year to the 62-ft. wall was added a supplementing levee of sandbags and Portsmouth stayed dry. This year the flood was not to be cheated...
Undismayed, Democrats next turned to the ticklish subject of beer. Last year traditionally Dry Kansas said NO by 90,000 votes in a referendum on legalizing beer. But the Legislature then failed to follow through with a law fixing alcoholic content. Result: potent beer continued to foam unchecked in Kansas. Democrats charge that Governor Landon got the Legislature to dodge the issue and thwart the popular will because, as a prospective Presidential nominee, he was afraid his signature on a bone dry law would cost him support among Eastern Wets. Last week a Democratic proposal for such...
...after four days of spluttering & splashing in the Lake Shore Athletic Club pool, the Amateur Athletic Union's National indoor swimming championships ended in Chicago last week with 25 new marks for the record book and at least three new girl prodigies whose faces, framed in foam and furnished with toothy smiles, will decorate this summer's rotogravure sections...