Word: licker
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...normal" slide seemed to have found it-and to be starting the upward climb again. In industrial alcohol, a basic raw material for many manufacturers, the surplus had caused prices to toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft spots, there was some hardening; American Woolen Co. also raised prices on 14 of its woolen-type...
...Knoxville, Tenn., Revenuer Sam McKinney, after raiding nine Cocke County stills, received a tearful letter: "In rades made last two weeks you got our forth licker, one forth our pots and barls. So plees let us alone awhile til we get good start again. We want work. Wer ashamd to beg. Wer afrade to steel. We can't starve. So plees let Cocke and Cosby rest 10 days til we get started again...
...much licker...
...determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample of Author Bradford's method of writing dialect: "And Valivostop! Dat's whar us stopped at to load on some coal. Dey got some drinkin' licker made out'n rice and bramboo and stuff named vockster. And drunk you? I tuck jest two drinks and dey had to tote me on de ship in a sack...
...buttonhole, summons the eleven partners to conference punctually at 11 a. m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On the wall of his office is a portrait of bushy old Solomon Loeb who retired one year after Otto Kahn, at 17, began his banking career in Germany as a stamp licker. There is the big white Georgian partners' room, heart of Kuhn, Loeb, where "people just roll in and roll out again." There Otto Kahn worked under his father-in-law, Partner Abraham Wolff. There he became a U. S. citizen during the War. There as Kuhn, Loeb...