Word: ruppert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hopped Up. In West Hartford, Conn., after a traffic accident, Casimir Rosinski was booked because he smelled of drink, was acquitted when he said. "I always smell that way," told the jury he worked for the Ruppert brewery...
BREWERY DEAL is being discussed for St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch, nation's No. 2 beermaker, to buy Manhattan's money-losing Ruppert brewery (Knickerbocker brand), thus get out ahead of Milwaukee's front-running Schlitz. Anheuser-Busch wants to buy a new brewery in East or Southeast...
...owner, Fred Saigh, was jailed for income-tax evasion. Ostensibly, Busch bought the Cardinals to save them for St. Louis. But he makes no bones about the fact that the team helps him sell more Budweiser. When sportswriters needle him about his commercialism, Busch snorts that Colonel Jacob Ruppert owned the New York Yankees for 30 years while he also owned Ruppert brewery, and that many of the 16 major-league team broadcasts are sponsored by beer companies...
...jurors and for refusing to answer questions before a Senate committee. In his career, high-living Harry Sinclair was the first man to wear silk underwear on the Cherokee strip, donated brass bands to a dozen Midwest towns, and (to find out which had more money) challenged Colonel Jacob Ruppert to a contest at throwing dollars into the Atlantic Ocean...
...until decisions can be approved with complete unanimity. Yet the Corporation is an empire that includes an endowment of $326 million, bonds in Baton Rouge sewers and Oklahoma highways, an island off the coast of Maine, stocks in every sort of industry from groceries (A. & P.) to beer (Jacob Ruppert) to General Motors...