Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Increasing the Federal tax on spirits from $1.10 a gal...
...heels of the distillers' code came the importers' marketing agreement. Article III of this agreement provided for minimum import quotas based on the peak years 1910-14, in which the U. S. bought overseas some 4,000,000 gal. of spirits, some 7,000,000 gal. of wine yearly. No restrictions were placed on the number of U. S. importing firms, but the total business was to be distributed by FACA according to "legitimate trade needs" of individual houses...
They tried to take off from the sultry harbor, but the ship refused to rise, so slick was the water, so still the air. They unloaded 40 gal. of fuel, piled most of their baggage ashore. The Colonel rocked the controls back & forth as he gunned the ship across the harbor. Still it refused to take off. Twice, thrice-five times he tried, then dejectedly clambered ashore again to whistle for a breeze...
...himself commissioned a Kentucky Admiral and began to expand in earnest. All liquormen regard the Schenley management highly. They were all born & bred to the business, and excitable, aggressive Lewis Rosenstiel knows precisely what he is up to. Schenley will cross the line with about 5,000,000 gal. which entitles it to one-fourth of the total business and the rank of No. 2 whiskey company. But Governor Pinchot's floor tax hit it hardest. Like National. Schenley has big distilleries in other states but 4,000,000 gal. of stocks tied up in Pennsylvania cannot soon...
...great Scotch whiskey trust, Distillers Co. Ltd., has about 100,000,000 gal. which it would dearly love to sell in the U. S. The big hurdle is a $5-a-gallon tariff which will probably be upped to stimulate domestic grain consumption. DCL, like Bacardi, has taken its time about the U. S. market, has kept liquormen with their tongues hanging out over who was to sell Johnny Walker, Haig & Haig, Dewar and Gordon gin. The assignment of only two brands was definitely known so late as last week: Black & White to National Distillers and Johnny Walker to Canada...