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...common with his competitors, O'Brien sadly affirmed that scotch would be unavailable for the great mass of eager purchasers. His advice to the frustrated, in the grand manner of a Bourbon queen of France, was "let 'em drink rye--of bourbon...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Water Holes Turn to Reddish Wine As Dealers Take Pot Running Over | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...Sabula (Iowa) Gazette was able to note that "Virtus Peterson of near Green Island called at the Gazette and would like to buy about half a bushel of rye seed." The Chenoa (Ill.) Clipper-Times announced that the second grade was enjoying the reading of Billy Whiskers at the Circus, which was brought to school by Bobby Ritter. The Cassville (Wis.) American reported: "Wilbur K. Buschbom, otherwise Billy, returned Tuesday morning from the Carolinas. He is a cowboy rider and does trick roping. A fascinating, if dangerous life? Young Billy says, 'It beats workin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Election Week | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Engaged. Daphne Dolores Mercedes Skouras, 24, daughter of cinema tycoon (20th Century-Fox) Spyros Skouras; and Oren Root Jr., 35, Manhattan lawyer, grandnephew of the late great Elihu Root, organizer of the clubs that won Wendell Willkie the Republican presidential nomination in 1940; in Rye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Died. Lady Brown (Lilian Alice Roussel), 63, explorer, author (Unknown Tribes; Uncharted Seas), whose expeditions in Central America discovered the Chucunaque Indian tribe in Panama and excavated the lost Mayan city of Lubaantun in British Honduras; after long illness; in Rye, Sussex, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...Trouble. Their only hope was to get rye in Winnipeg. Rice & Co. and General Foods hastily tried to bottle up the Winnipeg rye market. But one of the shorts was wily Cargill Grain Co., an old hand at corners. Cargill hustled enough Winnipeg rye to Chicago to break the corner, and drive down the price of rye futures, which had risen from 64¼? a bu. to $1.32 5/8. Two years later, it rose to $2.86 but General Foods had sold out. Final loss to General Foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Pocket Full of Rye | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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