Word: quart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman, Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty. Designed and baked in the kitchens of his Miami-Biltmore Hotel, the cake is, like the hotel, of steel frame construction. It contains 548 eggs, 75 Ib. of sugar, 50 Ib. of butter, 60 Ib. of flour, 75 Ib. of assorted fruit, 1 quart of vanilla, 3 quarts of rum and rose water. It cost $79 including $15 for labor, and occupied five men for 24 hours...
...called whiskey inasmuch as they have been cut about ten times. In spite of the fact that those concoctions are composed for the most part of a cheap grade of alcohol they sell for the perfectly outrageous price of two and a half or three dollars a quart, when the price of straight whiskey delivered to the retailer exclusive of taxes can be as low as one dollar and twenty cents a gallon. Obviously, there is something wrong somewhere, and somebody is making an enormous profit. Figures published yesterday by the Federal government would seem to show that...
...William Baker, doorkeeper lost "1 new beaver Hatt", valued at 1 pound 16 shillings; "1 new Wigg," 2 pounds 8 shillings; and one pair of black shoe buckles. Stephen Hall, a student numbered among his losses a bed and bedding, food, kitchen utensils, 2 cod lines, and a quart of rum which he valued at 1 shilling sixpence. Other itemized lists show that the students kept house for themselves to a large degree...
...Manhattan, Macy's, which boasts that it will not be undersold, was doing a landoffice liquor business. All old straight American whiskeys cost $6.94 a quart, or $3.74 a pint. Other prices: blended Golden Wedding ($2.94 a quart), *** Hennessy ($4.49 a fifth), Holloway's gin ($1.74), Mumm's Cordon Rouge 1926 champagne ($5.74 a quart...
...whiskey boomlet could not possibly continue long, vast National Distillers Corp. magnanimously promised: ''The man on the street who is finding legalized drinking too expensive is going to get a break. We will soon have ready some whiskies to sell to the consumer at $1.50 a quart, exclusive of state taxes. Both straight and blended whiskeys will be produced at this price level...