Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anderson, Clayton & Co. grew rapidly, taking over gins, branches and business from the defunct firm with which Will Clayton got his start. The firm promoted the round bale (250 Ib.) of uniform consistency which requires only one man to handle it and particularly pleases foreign buyers who deplore the shabby wrapping of the rest of U. S. cotton. Today Anderson, Clayton operate traveling gins in sparsely-settled areas of Mexico, compresses to reduce the size of ordinary gin bales for overseas shipment, warehouses with a capacity of 2,000,000 bales, a barge line on the Ouachita, Mississippi and Warrior...
...Ayer & Son, Inc., potent Philadelphia advertising agency; of complications following influenza; in Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College Hospital which last year elected him its president. A Baptist and ardent Dry, he accepted no post-Repeal liquor accounts, dropped Canada Dry when that firm began to sell gin, whiskey, beer (TIME, Sept...
Roguish Girl, Ah, she's a pearl With feet as swift and true- As the legs of any ewe; I'll tell you boys she's here to win, And from now on it looks as if You will be drinking the better grade gin...
...Whiskey sales, as well as production, have always slumped in the hot months, gin sales traditionally rising. To improve whiskey's standing as a summer drink, Calvert Distilling Co. last winter dispatched an expedition to the Amazon ("Green Hell of Guiana" for advertising purposes), equipped with "dermatherms" and plenty of Calvert whiskey. After sitting around in the jungle drinking Calvert for six weeks the expedition returned with figures showing that skin temperatures were ½° to 1° lower after "ingestion" of the whiskey...
...Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Tall, black-browed, weathered, he likes to cruise to Ontario's Georgian Bay with Radioman Powel Crosley Jr., agreeing beforehand not to mention radio. He likes checked suits and stiff collars, cocktails made with pistachio ice cream and gin. But what Eugene Francis McDonald likes most of all is to put on a diving helmet and sit on the floor of Georgian Bay watching the fish...