Word: quart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prices of the liquor offered yesterday and predicted for the future were, to put it plainly, absurd. Gin, the equal of which anyone can make for fifty cents a quart, was on the market at about two dollars; whiskey, particularly the better variety, was selling at a prohibitive price, and the cost of imported wines assumed astronomical proportions. These unfortunate circumstances have been laid off variously to taxes, protection of home industries, and to what retailers vaguely call "high wholesale charges." The fairly evident fact that the manufacturers are putting on the screws in the face of a great demand...
...production cost of $10.80 a case must be added the mark-up of middleman and distributor. For some time to come the retail price of reasonably good whiskey will be around $30 a case. Testifying in Washington last week, distillers said they could retail blended whiskey for $1.50 a quart but they did not specify the quality. Most whiskey men believe that in a few years even good aged whiskey will be as low as $1 a quart. Good Scotch will probably not go under $35 per case. Gin will probably retail for $1 to $1.50 per quart...
...Harvard, "came in to his chamber, sometime in the forenoon and so continued there until 3 or 4 or ye clock in ye afternoon. During which time...they had cider fetch(ed) in by ...Ailing... as he judgeth in all about 3 qts. for which they paid 2d a quart." Barnard, the other Freshman, stopped in to see Alling and "found they had some rum, which they had been drinking of." Another pint was soon required and sent for "which was mixt with water and sugar. They drank it among them but he saw no excess." After this addition...
Bottles. At stores and restaurants no liquor may be carried in any container except sealed bottles of not more than one quart capacity. No kegs, demijohns, magnums or gallons will be available. Every bottle must be labeled with date of manufacture, alcoholic content and whether the contents are straight, blended or imitation...
Wholesalers likewise may not deal in other goods in that part of their premises which is licenced, may display no signs advertising brands of liquor, may not be tied up to other liquor interests, may sell in no containers larger than quart bottles, may sell only to licenced retailers or in case lots to householders...