Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These facts to the contrary, notwithstanding, the morbid or wholesome craving for alcoholic content created a big, quick demand. Pabst began shipments. August A. Busch announced that Anheuser-Busch could not ship for several months. Small druggists will be. limited to five cases a week, big druggists to 25. Twelve-ounce bottles will cost about 35?. At 50?, drug store clerks in Minneapolis were the first to pass them out. Sale in Manhattan followed several days later. In Indiana, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union became hectic, threatening that "our Congress will impeach General Andrews and even Mr. Mellon...
...expected tax yield for next year by 12 hundred million francs ($42,000,000). Thereafter 225 million francs ($7,875,000) of added taxes on alcohol were passed, together with a poll tax expected to bring in 570 million francs ($19,950,000). Other miscellaneous taxes passed in quick succession. The whole, together with the taxes passed before the last Briand Cabinet fell (TIME, March 15), totaled a tax increase of somewhat more than four billion francs. This was an accomplishment of which MM. Briand and Peret might well have been proud. Yet the Premier ominously remarked...
Thrifty, the grocer was still tending store when, two hours later, a motorist entered to make purchases. Hospitable, the grocer engaged his customer in conversation. Confiding, the customer let fall that his name was Straight. Quick-witted, the grocer asked if he was Allen Straight. Yes, he was. . . . Mrs. Straight was dying in Colorado...
Cyrus Hall McCormick used to go with his father, Robert, into a log hut on their Virginia farm and the two would work secretly for hours. The father was a Scotch-Irishman, quick with his hands. He had invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country. He often stood pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father...
...past six years, how many feet (on the average) have the levels of the Great Lakes dropped ? (See SCIENCE) . 12) After what U. S. Admiral would it be stupid to christen a safety razor? (See Music.) 13) What is the real reason the University of London has not been quick to accept the gift of the City of London? (See EDUCATION.) 14) Define an Alaskan "sour-dough." (See AERONAUTICS.) 15) The I. C. C. has set a certain "fair" mark (percentage) for earnings on its own valuation of the property values of Class I railroads. What percentage? (See BUSINESS...