Word: ginger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saylor, president and largest stockholder of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., wants to sell 7,500,000 cases (50 bottles each) of his ginger ale yearly. In 1926 he sold 1,360,000 cases; sales already made this year warranted his announcing last week a stock dividend increase from $2 to $3. Besides selling dry ginger ale the company sells "Sumoro Orange," a concentrated orange drink. Recently it bought out Caledonia Springs Corp. Ltd., of Canada, bottlers of "Magi" and "Adanac" table waters...
...Pullman passengers may be divided into two parts, the "nervous," the "not nervous."* For the "not nervous" Mr. Warner gives silent thanks and hastens to anticipate the imaginary wants of the "nervous." The shade down a little? Yes, Sir. Magazine from the newsboy? Yess, Madam. Drink of water? Ginger ale? Another pillow? Right away?and the more testy the request, the more cheery the service. That is professional ethics. Invariably, the "nervous" are poor tippers. But Mr. Warner and his peers are nearly certain to make up their average of $1 per capita in tips from the "not nervous...
There was Harold Horsfall Hilton, 58, editor of Golf Illustrated, four-time amateur champion, twice open champion, who was out to win his 100th match in title play. He still had his oldtime precision, but his drives had lost their ginger. He was eliminated in the first round...
...Kubla Khan.'" His chief guide in this hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia of a profound and poetic intellect...
Miss Eloysa Levine, nine-year-old daughter of New York-Paris Flight-Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin for a ride. As the plane took off, a bolt was sheared in the shock absorbers, crippling the landing dolly, meaning disaster 99 out of a 100 cases...