Word: pabsts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee licensed 4,207 "taverns"; the thirsty stormed Juneau Avenue breweries at midnight. At the Miller Brewery, beer was passed out free to thirsters who brought milk bottles, tomato cans. Wisconsin Avenue was jammed with celebrants, some of whom stood on the tops of their cars singing "Sweet Adeline." Pabst had its product, screamingly escorted by police sirens, at downtown hotels eight minutes after legalization...
General American Tank Car Corp. last week announced contracts to furnish refrigerator cars to Schlitz, Pabst. Blatz, Miller (Milwaukee). Schoenhofen and Prima (Chicago), Goetz (St. Joseph, Mo.): had already reconditioned 500 of its 20,000 refrigerator cars for beer and expected to need 2,000 for the beer trade (in pre-Prohibition days Milwaukee shipped 43,000 carloads of beer a year). General Tank likewise laid plans for special tank cars similar to 300 once used to ship California wine...
Greatest beer city by reason of its fame was Milwaukee, and great was the beerage thereof-but 13 years have taken their toll. The Pabsts like the Busches stood by to let Prohibition pass. Fred Pabst turned to cheese, ginger ale. near beer, pop. While he was doing so a chemist, Harris Perlstein. in Chicago picked up an old brewery and started to make malt syrup in a bigger and more profitable way than the ex-brewers. "Blue Ribbon" was Pabst's beer and Perlstein took '"Blue Ribbon'' for his syrup. Pabst sued and lost...
Beer of 3.2% compares as follows with famed pre-Prohibition brews: Pabst Blue Ribbon, 2.9%; Schlitz Pale, 3.1%; Anheuser-Busch Budweiser, 3.8%; Cream City Pilsener, 3.3%; Blatz Muenchener, 3.5%; Hammond Muehlhauser...
...French cinema version called L'Opéra de Quat' Sons, with music by German Composer Kurt Weill, Victorian settings. Last week's showing of L'Opéra de Quat' Sous was interesting for other than sentimental reasons. Famed George Wilhelm Pabst who directed it also made a German version of The Beggar's Opera (Die Drei-groschenoper) of which censored portions were shown in the U. S. two years ago. Last week's U. S. premiere of L'Opéra de Quat' Sous, which like Die Dreigroschenoper...