Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. Saylor, whose latest undertaking was to put Canada Dry into the liquor business, resigned his presidency, will continue as chairman. Under an amendment to the company's bylaws, the board chairman is to become chief executive and financial officer, the president chief operating officer. Elected president was Roy W. Moore, handsome, sociable, longtime vice president in charge of operations...
...Bedford, May 2--The 108-foot British oil screw vessel, Accuracy, was detained by Coast Guards at New Bedford today while Customs Officials and guardsmen hunted 3000 cases of smuggled liquor, valued at $50,000, reported landed and concealed somewhere between Nonquitt and Smith's Neck during the night...
Traveling Saleslady (Warner) briskly relates the. adventures, commercial and romantic, of a young woman (Joan Blondell) who, to spite her father for not giving her a job in his tooth paste company, . goes on the road for his rival selling dentifrice with liquor flavors. Complicated principally by the necessity for outwitting her father's star salesman (William Gargan) while she falls in love with him, Angela Twitchell's career reaches its peak when, at a Chicago drug convention, she sees to it that her rival and fiance arrives late in a plane whose pilot she has hired...
Repeal has had markedly different effects on White Rock and Canada Dry. White Rock apparently suffered from the competition of cheaper carbonated waters. Canada Dry's main trouble, on the other hand, lay in the fact that with Repeal, it went into the liquor business. It bought an interest in a brewery, secured exclusive U. S. sales rights on Johnny Walker Scotch whiskey, Sandeman's wines and Cinzano vermouth. Finally it began marketing Canada Dry gin. The company now admits that these liquor ventures were not altogether successful. Net profit for 1934 of $439,500 was, according...
After three days the Treasury reported 2,389 arrests. Confiscated had been several million dollars worth of jewels, narcotics, liquor, stills, livestock, automobiles, boats, lottery tickets and, in Montana, a stump-puller on which duty had not been paid. Alcohol Tax agents, most of whom have worked without pay since Dec. because of a patronage-greedy deficiency bill amendment wangled by Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, had seized 900 stills, 119 automobiles and 40,204 gal. of bootleg liquor, made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold...