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Word: quart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of milk, he explained, all students now who order it at every meal receive over a quart a day including what goes into the cooking, an amount more than sufficient for any normal human being, and most animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DURANT BACKS NEW FOOD CUT | 2/11/1942 | See Source »

...annual Community Chest drive, and Faculty and employees of the University cannot be expected to make up all of the difference. Both have contributed more than ever before, and students can well afford to give up a couple of trips to the movies, of the price of a quart of Scotch, in order to help Harvard reach its quota. There are only two more days to go, and if the University fails to make up the $11,000 still lacking, most of the blame will lie upon the hands of the student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brother Can You Spare A Dime | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Liquor prices are still "moderate" in the Square though sales are up. A vendor pointed out that just after prohibition prices were way above these now charged, for "stuff" that might be no more than just "a quart of grain alcohol mixed in with some rally prune juice." Now, according to all reports, whisky is better quality

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD LUCRE POURS INTO TILLS OF SQUARE MERCHANTS | 10/24/1941 | See Source »

...liquor, which caused the biggest rush, the tax increase is a flat $1 a gallon. For a quart of whiskey the additional tax amounts to 25?; for a fifth, it comes to 20?. But whiskey buyers this week found that prices had gone up as much as 50? a quart, 35? a fifth. On radios, the additional tax is 4½%, bringing the total Federal tax to 10%. But radio prices are up a full 10% or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSUMERS: Hangover | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Instead of the 5.6? a quart which he now gets for fluid milk from big milk distributors like Sheffield Farms and Borden's, the farmer would get over 10?. Much of this rise would be passed on to the public, even if the distributors absorbed part of it. The price the housewife pays for milk (delivered) might jump from 15½? a quart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dairymen's Holiday | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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