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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just working my way through College," William Gold '49 winked yesterday, as he downed his fifth quart of beer in two hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lucre-Lured Student Guzzles Seven Quarts of Beer in Afternoon Spree | 4/14/1948 | See Source »

Last Tuesday's announcement by the Schlitz Brewery of Milwaukee of a price boost of two or three cents on each quart of beer will soon be followed by Blatz and also all eastern breweries, such as Narragansett, Harvard. Bowdoin, Ballentine, Ruppert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defends Beer | 1/13/1948 | See Source »

...quart of soup and two pounds of potatoes," wrote Lord Chesterfield to his son, "will enable you to pass the night without great impatience for your breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Macaronic Soup | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...welcome feel of peace. Since 1941, Honolulu's population had grown from 150,000 to 268,000, that of the islands as a whole from 400,000 to 525,000. In the city, housing was short and prices high (eggs, $1.45 a dozen; milk, 25? a quart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Something Old, Something New | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...targets countered with a $25,000 libel suit. Sheriff Meehan, a triple-chinned 200-pounder who likes to gobble ice cream by the quart, called Dilworth "an old gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Street-Corner Crusade | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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