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Three times in four nights, R.A.F. heavy bombers struck Berlin in fullscale, 700-bomber raids. On an early morning, more than 800 U.S. heavies attacked Frankfort on the Main. At the week end, 700 more attacked Brunswick's aircraft factories. Between Thursday and Sunday at least 9,000 tons of bombs fell on German targets...
...Frankfort, Ky., a divorce was awarded to Charles R. Barnett, who charged that his wife had refused to kiss him because his mustache tickled...
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...