Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roly-poly youngster. Campy sold newspapers, cut grass, shined shoes. Mornings he got up at 2:30 to help his older brother Lawrence run a milk route. By 5:30 he was back in bed; at 8 he was on his way to school. Always, young Roy's income was turned over to his mother, and always, his allowance was spent on movies or a ball game. Shibe Park (now Connie Mack Stadium) was within walk ing distance of the Campanella home, and any afternoon there was a game. Roy was there, too. For a quarter a kid could...
...yearly income of $5,780, with another $2,000 socked away in the bank. He spends an average $11,640 for his house, pays $1,100 down and makes monthly payments of $95.15 for interest and amortization. Of all 407,000 homeowners, 60% bought new homes, 40% older units...
...well as to millions of others who are deeply grateful to the Busch family for what they have done for America, St. Louis and the beer industry, I am not so sure that you are entirely correct in saying "When Prohibition was finally repealed . . . Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks ..."... As I recall it, the first case of beer went to Al Smith when it came off the line...
...midnight every factory in St. Louis blew its whistle. Then the trucks rolled out of the gates and took Budweiser to bars all over St. Louis. People were backed all the way out to the curb waiting for their turn at the bar." Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks. Ever since Gussie Busch has been a Democrat ("I'll be damned if I'll bite the hand that...
Though the fight was won, it had taken too much out of Gus's father. Suffering from high blood pressure, gout and a bad heart, August Busch Sr. shot himself to death on Feb. 13, 1934. In accordance with family tradition, Gussie's older brother Adolphus III was elected president, and from 1937 to 1945 he kept the company at the top of the industry. Gussie Busch went off to World War II in 1942, spent most of his time helping to break tank-production bottlenecks at Detroit's automotive center, came...