Word: gins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, are still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club .35, Old Fashioned .35, Orange Blossom .30, Champagne .75; the prices of the punches and miscellaneous mixed drink.; Planters Punch .45, Claret Punch .35, Brandy Egg Nogg .50, Tom Collins .35, Gin Rickey .25, Ward "8" .45. The fizzes and sours range from .30 to .45, and the highballs from...
...result of such highway robbery, of course, will be to make people return to the bootlegger, who will now cut his prices even more. The average college student, for example, is not, and indeed cannot, pay $1.50 for a fifth of gin, when he can buy alcohol for $4.00 a gallon, thereby making his own gin for $.40 a quart. Worse still, all efforts to make America into a wine drinking country will certainly fail dismally when such enormously high prices are levied; those who mours the hard liquor propensities of Americans should consider the fact that in France...
...public from ten until eight o'clock for a special vote on the liquor question. The ballot which will be presented to the people on that date will contain two provisions only: "a. Shall licenses be issued allowing the sale of hard liquors such as rum, whiskey and gin? b.--Shall licenses be issued allowing the sale of wines and malt liquors?" If, however, one per cent of the registered voters, 430 persons, so petition, a clause may be added to this bill for voting on the taverns...
...prices of the liquor offered yesterday and predicted for the future were, to put it plainly, absurd. Gin, the equal of which anyone can make for fifty cents a quart, was on the market at about two dollars; whiskey, particularly the better variety, was selling at a prohibitive price, and the cost of imported wines assumed astronomical proportions. These unfortunate circumstances have been laid off variously to taxes, protection of home industries, and to what retailers vaguely call "high wholesale charges." The fairly evident fact that the manufacturers are putting on the screws in the face of a great demand...
...distillers said they could retail blended whiskey for $1.50 a quart but they did not specify the quality. Most whiskey men believe that in a few years even good aged whiskey will be as low as $1 a quart. Good Scotch will probably not go under $35 per case. Gin will probably retail for $1 to $1.50 per quart...