Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss and chief stockholder of Schenley Industries, Inc., Lewis Solon Rosenstiel built a $438 million empire and a reputation in the liquor trade as a confident hustler. During Prohibition, while distillers were folding up, Rosenstiel, then a whisky broker, bet his money on Repeal ; he bought up all the whisky he could lay his hands on. Result: the year after Repeal, his new Schenley company had sales of $40 million...
...deeper one. Recently its sales have been off 55% v. a drop of only 28% to 36% for Seagrams, Hiram Walker and National Distillers. Schenley's troubles and its vast expansion have caused the company to borrow $150 million, although its assets are greater than any other U.S. liquor company...
...Schenley (but stayed as chairman), and elevated a whole platoon of young Schenley reserves. Into the presidency went Ralph Taft Heymsfeld, 44, a Columbia-trained lawyer who joined the company 18 years ago and has specialized, as secretary and counsel, in fighting for fair trade and against high liquor taxes. Up to executive vice president stepped Treasurer Sidney Becker, 42, who started with Schenley during Prohibition...
...Benefitting from four years of mistakes, Bryant Haliday, Brattle's general manager, produced three plays this summer, profiting to the extent that the theatre did not lose money and the performers received adequate pay. Now the going will be easier, since the City of Cambridge has granted Brattle a liquor license. This will provide an extra source of revenue, as it has for the Boston Symphony...
...Sage Co., which runs a delicatessen and liquor store on Brattle st., indicated through counsel Edward Dangel it will appeal Dowd's ruling to the State Supreme Court. Dangel said he didn't think he "had been given a full hearing in this court." He argued he did not have ample chance to present his case...