Word: pabst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast-growing market. Bev-Rich Inc., backed by the makers of Valley Forge beer, has four flavors on sale in the East, expects to sell 2,000.000 cases the first year. Canada Dry is test-marketing canned Spur cola in the Phila- delphia area. In Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y., Pabst Brewing Co.'s soft-drink division launched a singing commercial campaign for "Tasty Tap-a-Cola in-the flat-top can." White Rock Corp. is selling canned root beer, lemon-lime and black-cherry pop in Los Angeles. In Chicago, Dad's Root Beer is gearing...
BREWERS are racing to get into big production on the West Coast, thus cut their freight costs. Pabst will open a $15 million Los Angeles brewery by year's end; Schlitz and Anheuser-Busch will be brewing beer in Los Angeles by spring...
German Movie Director George Wilhelm Pabst, hired to restage Aïda, crammed three elephants, four camels, ten horses and a cow onstage, with 1,500 people, 2,000 Riviera palms, and a 53-ft. Egyptian statue. As a clincher, a navigable canal (representing the River Nile) stretched between the stage and the 30,000 onlookers. The singing, with Italy's current top Soprano Maria Callas as Aïda and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Mario del Monaco as Radames, was first-rate...
Verona was unwilling to leave it at that. Last week it staged a monster Trovatore, with mass movements akin to wheeling infantry; for this week, it was preparing a third Verdi epic, La Forza del Destino. Director Pabst was keeping his operation plans top secret, but Veronese had high hopes. Last time he worked on Forza (in Florence last spring), only the last-minute protests of the scandalized opera management kept him from bringing the Act III battle scenes up to date with armored cars and tanks...
Brewer Miller did not intend to be content with that. In five years, spending $25 million on expansion, he had brought his High Life brew from 20th place to a position right behind Schlitz, Anheuser-Busch, Ballantine and Pabst. Last week President Miller announced that he is starting a second $20 million expansion. Said he: "Our goal is to be the largest producer of the best beer...