Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrowest escape I ever had from being fired was when I got fly with a little guy who detrained from the Lake Shore Limited. During Prohibition days, 'leggers came in from Canada and other points with huge bags loaded with liquor. In order to get through O.K., they'd dress like preachers, bums, and ambassadors. A redcap in not allowed to charge a passenger for services--take the tip and shut up! is the law. But bootleggers could be hijacked for a buck or more, if you were sure...
Thought Sachs Had Liquor...
...whiskeys, whereas in 1935 about 95% of its volume came from cheap whiskeys, aged up to 15 months. National's 1935 sales of $52,596,000 were only some $2,000,000 more than in 1934, although the sales by cases increased 43%. Seton Porter's big-liquor combine produced 26,214,000 gallons of whiskey, about one-seventh of the U. S. total. National Distillers' common, at $31, sold last week at only a little more than nine times earnings...
Meantime, Mrs. Liggett positively identified a liquor dealer named Isadore Blumenfield ("Kid Cann") as the man who killed her husband. As she sat in the family car, said Mrs. Liggett, she had seen Kid Cann lean out of a passing automobile and fire the fatal shots. At Kid Cann's trial, which began late in January, a second witness also identified him as the killer. This witness, who was in the alley behind the Liggett apartment, said he recognized Kid Cann because they had served time together in the local workhouse...
...occasion last week was the 30th annual convention of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, an exposition only slightly disturbed by the fact that it occupied space in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace directly above the National Liquor Show. Besides the landscaped family plot, the girders of the building groaned beneath more than 500 tombstones, 700,000 Ib. of marble, bronze and granite. Secretary Roswell M. Austin of the Memorial Extension Commission announced that 1935 was the biggest year for the tombstone industry since Depression, that the average price of tombstones had risen from a Depression...