Word: frankforter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the past month one big liquor deal has gone through: Seagram's $43,000,000 purchase of a 95% interest in Frankfort Distilleries. Two other big deals are bruited: Allied Mills may sell its whiskey subsidiary, Century Distilling Co., for around $28,000,000; Park & Tilford is dickering for Brown Forman. In all these deals the buying price is more than $100 per barrel of whiskey stocks-a good deal more than their value on the books of the small fry selling...
...capital gains. But for the big companies with low inventories, who must maintain their competitive positions, the reverse is true: almost any way of acquiring more well-aged whiskey stocks makes sense. Example: Seagram is the No. 1 North American liquor company in sales. But even after buying up Frankfort's 400,000 bbl. of whiskey its total inventories of around 1,300,000 bbl. leaves it well behind Schenley, with 2,000,000 bbl., and barely ahead of National's 1,250,000 bbl. (Hiram Walker, fourth in the Big Four, trails with some...
...Short, affable Businessman James F. Brownlee took over as deputy administrator in charge of price control. Able Businessman Brownlee (American Sugar Refining, General Foods, Frankfort Distilleries) has receding brown hair, might easily pass for a professor. Said he: "The [professors] I've met around here are nice guys and pretty damned smart...
...Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) crashes over Germany until he arrives safely back in Eng land, the plot never stops boiling. When the captain escapes from the prison camp, with an alleged Czech prisoner (Kent Taylor) and a most unlikely-looking Russian Army doctor (Annabella), the trio hitch hike to Frankfort in no less an oddity than a truck full of coffins. When the Czech turns out to be a German spy, Doctor Annabella quite naturally snoots...
Incubation. Releasing Harvey McKinney from a year's jail term for the theft of a hen and her eggs, the Court of Appeals in Frankfort, Ky. ruled that it was a misdemeanor but no felony, that the lower court "did . . . count chickens before they hatched...