Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion of President Sowles, Trading Post was sound so far as it went; trouble was, it did not go far enough. It was selling $1,500,000 worth of groceries a year, mostly canned goods, and concessionaires were selling another $1,000,000 worth of fruits, vegetables, refrigerators, tobacco, liquor, house furnishings, men's wear. What the supermarket needed, said President Sowles. was a women's apparel department. Last week in one section of the supermarket blossomed "Fashion Avenue." a row of five separate shops which are expected to develop a $500,000 annual volume. The shop windows...
...lowest for any year on record. Biggest losses were in coal and coke, stolen not only by organized gangs but by individuals who needed fuel. Professional train robbers concentrated on tobacco products, jettisoned $125,000 worth during the year. Railroad police kept their record clear on liquor shipments, in which no highjacking cases have been reported since Repeal...
Died. William Forbes Morgan. 57, president of Distilled Spirits Institute (TIME. March 1 ): of heart disease; in the Ohio State Capitol at Columbus, after speaking at a liquor hearing. His first wife was an aunt of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his second the 26-year-old daughter of Washington Lawyer Robert Jackson, whom he followed as Democratic National Secretary...
...spittoon philosophers. . . . We got 815,000 American members now. . . . Half have got jobs and are making dough. A hobo isn't a stemmer; he begs only when he has to. He don't hit the smoke like floaters do, and when he drinks he drinks good liquor. Columbus was a water hobo. He said to Isabella: 'Queeny, old gal, you'll have to stake me with a handout. . . .' " Picked as convention city for 1938: Altoona...
Anyway, it's happier to think of other things: Tonight I go to Sicily, I hear there's a small town on a mountain top where they still speak Greek and drink a kind of a liquor which originated in Homer's time and do Greek dances and take you in and give you their best bread if only you'll tell them a story of your own country and show them something new. I say, "So I've heard" it's like this. But by now I wager it's a town on a mountain top with an Otis...