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...chiefly on overhead- rents and "tips." Rents usually vary between $50 and $200 per month; shopowners are unwilling to say how much it costs them to remain unmolested. Profits are not exorbitant. One gallon of the cheapest alcohol costs from $3 to $4 wholesale. Flavoring drops cost $1.25 per quart. From these can be made 14 bottles of 75? gin at an average cost of 30? per bottle. Labels cost little, bottles about 5? each. Grade A alcohol costs $5 or $6 per gallon wholesale, the best drops $5 per quart. Operators who have not cut prices are scornful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Around the Corner | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...near fashionable Sutton Place: Gin- Grade A, $2. Grade B, $1.75. Grade C, $1.25. Rye-William Penn $2.50 (pt.), Silver Dollar $3 (pt.), Overholt $4 (pt.), Butterham & Worth $4.50 (pt.). Scotch -Ambassador $2.50 (pt.), King George $2.50 (pt.), Johnnie Walker $4.75 (qt.), King George $4.75 (qt.). Port-$2.25 per quart. Sherry-$2.25 per quart. Grain Alcohol-$9 per gallon. Imported Cordi-als-$4.50 per bottle. Beer-$9 per case of 24 pints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Around the Corner | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...What decimal part of 2 bushels, 3 pecks and 4 quarts is 1 bushel, 3 pecks, 1 quart and 1 pint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Simple Arithmetic | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Said a U. S. technical expert at Irkutsk to Rover Wales: "There are three big shoe factories here but I have never been able to buy a pair of shoes and neither has anyone else I know. We pay $7.50 a pound for butter and $1.25 a quart for milk." Dean of the U. S. colony at Irkutsk is former U. S. Consul Fowler who has lived in Russia for 30 consecutive years, likes the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 51c, 16c, 81, 3c? | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...each fruit-farmer of Merced County. Calif, who asked for it last week, Dooley P. Wheeler, agricultural commissioner, presented a quart jar. The farmers went to their farms, opened the jars and cried, in effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ladybugs | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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