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...tabloid New York Daily News screamed: MABEL WINS WINK FROM U. S. ON WINE! Explanation: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition and good friend of Director Woodcock, is counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. Fruit Industries Inc. is an affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes. To market this vast...
Wines including unfermented grape wine...
...Grein raid in Chicago was the first move under what Commissioner Doran proclaimed as a nation-wide drive on hopshops. A Treasury Department interpretation of the Supreme Court decision also raised a shadowy threat of prosecution against many a potent, prosperous grape juice company now shipping an unfermented product in kegs to customers with specific instructions for transforming it into illegal wine...
...Blair president, to the Board, some significance was attached to the fact that Blair and California Packing are very friendly. At present General Foods has more than 80 branded products (ten leading ones: Walter Baker's Chocolate, Maxwell House Coffee, Calumet Baking Powder, Postum, Hellman's Mayonnaise, Grape Nuts, JellO, Log Cabin Syrup, Swan's Down Cake Flour, Diamond Crystal Salt) which it distributes through 400,000 grocery stores. The average age of the component companies is 40 years. Hoariest of all is Walter Baker's Chocolate, now celebrating its 150th anniversary. Chairman of General Foods...
...newest pawn in the struggle centered about the juice of the grape is Zaro Agha, recent American Anti-Alcohol importation, who is to incite chatter in Temperance troups and Women's Clubs from coast to coast. From the monotony of doorkeeping at the city hall of Istambul, faithful Zaro has never sought surcease in bacchanalian revel. For one hundred and fifty-six years he has serenely bowed before the city factota and with the same contemplative serenity seen eleven consecutive wives pass from his bed and board into the lap of Mother Earth...