Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret that Repeal has been something very close to a flop as a business proposition. Publication of Government liquor tax receipts for fiscal 1934 merely added to the evidence. Liquor retailing has been bitterly competitive and for small stores practically profitless. Big distributors are sagging under the weight of carrying the corner dealer. Even the distillers, always suspect, have found Repeal no gold mine. Few weeks ago National Distillers, stockmarket comet of 1933, hit a new low for the year on the same day that Coca-Cola hit a new high of $136 per share...
...advantages arising from the repeal of prohibition in the U. S. are one of the reasons enabling the company to restore dividends on the ordinary stock to 20%. [But Repeal benefits] are at present limited by an obvious shortage of money across the Atlantic to pay for commitments...
...Entirely fallacious," said he, "is the popular conception of the average college student as a gin-drinking, jazz-crazy, sex-feverish iconoclast with communistic leanings who scoffs at the ideas of an older generation. . . . Repeal apparently has had a sobering effect on youth. The jazz age is definitely gone...
...Legal beer helped boost the net profit of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., which has a machine to make 240 bottles a minute, to $4.208.000 for the year ended June 30, 1933. Beer bottle sales were beginning to stabilize when Repeal opened up the demand for wine and liquor bottles which are not regularly refilled. Owens-Illinois' net profit for the year ended June 30, 1934 was up nearly...
...stonily through a great squirting of spleen at the Prime Minister by an old friend who left the Labor Party to follow Scot MacDonald but is now the bitterest foe of his National Government. Fired to fury by the repeal of the land tax which he as Chancellor of the Exchequer riveted on England's great hereditary landlords, self-made and landless Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw sneered at the Prime Minister: "Once he gave me assurance in a tearful voice that the land tax would be maintained. That was at the time he was begging me not to resign...