Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artie's clients from time to time have included some of California's beer, liquor, cigarette, motor bus, trucking and railroad companies; some race tracks, banks and mortgage firms. Samish was once credited with "owning" 30 of the state's 80 legislators, with electing a California attorney general and a mayor of San Francisco, and with dictating the selection of several state assembly speakers and the entire membership of the two legislative committees which concern him most. His efforts seem to have paid off: California has no state cigarette tax and no other state has a lower...
...LIQUOR-BY-WIRE will soon be a reality. Taking a cue from the florists, Manhattan's Beverage-By-Wire Inc. has made arrangements with dealers in 18 wet states to deliver gift liquor ordered by telegram...
Toll Call. In Chicago, two strangers entered the J. & J. Liquor Store, told Owner Joseph Glickin that they were going to use the pay phone, 35 minutes later departed, taking the telephone with them...
...keep its factories running. The cost of reaching them is often more than one producer alone can afford. Thus a distiller estimated that he would have to employ a minimum of 75 salesmen and invest $500,000 to $1,000,000 to service the more than 32,000 liquor licensees in metropolitan New York alone, a job that an independent distributor was already doing for him much more cheaply. Nevertheless, on a few big ticket items, such as automobiles, big savings can be made by bypassing the jobber and wholesaler...
Attempting to hastle according to the stage directions, Stanley Holloway leads the cast as the liquor-loveing philanthropist. He is effective in several of the early scenes, but finally succumbs to the thinness of the story. Hugh Griffith playing the Thunderbolt's fireman delivers the most convincing performances. Unfortunately, only a few laughs depend upon his part...