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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These two signs told the whole story of Federal efforts to halt the rapid spread of New York's cordial & beverage shops where almost anybody can buy a bottle of gin for a dollar. Two years ago, one of the first to open was the shop at No. 201 East 44th Street (TIME, Feb. 10, 1930 et seq.). Gin. whiskey, brandy and liqueurs were openly displayed, openly sold. While the proprietor, one Mike, openly scoffed, while a Columbia University student wrote to President Hoover about it, the U. S. District Attorney's office said the matter would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Around the Corner | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Competition has reduced prices. Recently Manhattan's West Side shops cut the price of Grade C gin to 75?. Some of the East Side shops followed. At others the price has remained $1 and $1.25. Grade B gin is 50? more, Grade A 25? above that. The grades vary little in taste. Prices depend to some extent on the location of the shops; chiefly on overhead- rents and "tips." Rents usually vary between $50 and $200 per month; shopowners are unwilling to say how much it costs them to remain unmolested. Profits are not exorbitant. One gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Around the Corner | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Last week's quotations at a cordial shop near fashionable Sutton Place: Gin- Grade A, $2. Grade B, $1.75. Grade C, $1.25. Rye-William Penn $2.50 (pt.), Silver Dollar $3 (pt.), Overholt $4 (pt.), Butterham & Worth $4.50 (pt.). Scotch -Ambassador $2.50 (pt.), King George $2.50 (pt.), Johnnie Walker $4.75 (qt.), King George $4.75 (qt.). Port-$2.25 per quart. Sherry-$2.25 per quart. Grain Alcohol-$9 per gallon. Imported Cordi-als-$4.50 per bottle. Beer-$9 per case of 24 pints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Around the Corner | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Belize was founded by British pirates. The name Belize was unaccountably derived by Spaniards from the name of the Scottish Settler Wallis. Legend relates that the city was built in a swamp on a foundation of gin pots and mahogany chips. If this is so, it would have been better if the city's fathers had thrown in a few more pots and chips, for Belize is only a few inches above sealevel. Out of this circumstance came the second and far more horrible tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH HONDURAS: What Spiders Know | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: Roy T. Yates, 35-year-old New Jersey State Senator, married, father of three, sat down and started drinking gin with a Miss Ruth Jayne Cranmer, whom he was maintaining in a Manhattan apartment. After their fourth bottle of gin, they fell to quarreling about Miss Cranmer's allowance and apartment rent which seemed too expensive to Senator Yates. Later still Senator Yates was shot in the abdomen. Taken to a hospital, his condition was so serious that police were unable to question him. Miss Cranmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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