Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December when the 18th Amendment was tossed into the political bonfire, Kentucky, hardest of hard liquor states, did not repeal its prohibition law. Last week it was still unrepealed when Governor Ruby Laffoon signed a new law regarding the sale of medicinal liquor. Two ways were provided for obtaining it. (1) On prescriptions written by doctors (without limit). (2) On prescriptions which any person over 21 may write for himself, if he declares "I am not addicted to the habit of drink and have not within six months prior hereto, been convicted of drunkenness...
...once. Each would need to learn only a few names. Illinois' favorite soft-lighted booths for pairing off between classes, are at Hanley's and Prehn's. Favorite snacks are rich fudge squares called "Lukers," washed down by Coca-Cola. Beer is too expensive and sale of hard liquor near the campus is forbidden by State law. But almost any Illini can tell the stranger where to get a pint of "corn." And the young philosophy and romance which burgeon in a luxurious Student Union, in 124 dormitories, fraternity & sorority houses and in Fords parked amid...
...years ago some natives, poling up the river when the water was unusually low, spied something shining on the bank. They went ashore, scooped up enough shining things to buy many jars of heady chicha. Soon Harvard's Peabody Museum heard of the curiously wrought gold ornaments on sale in a Panama City antique shop. The result was the Lothrop expedition. In one grave alone, containing a score of skeletons laid out on stone slabs, the Harvard diggers found more than 2,000 objects. In gold there were pendants studded with semiprecious stones, bead necklaces, cuffs, rods with decorated...
...arranged to have his product made under contract by Walla-Walla Chewing Gum Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. Almost before he knew what had happened Tom Huston found himself forced in under the Chewing Gum Manufacturers' Code which contains this clause: "No member of the Industry shall guarantee the sale of his product by the purchaser thereof...
...initial capital for the enterprise may be supplied by the R. F. C., though Congress may not be adverse to making a direct appropriation. It is not believed that more than $500,000,000 will be needed to launch the enterprise and provision doubtless will be made for the sale of such capital to the banks in much the same manner as arranged when the Federal Reserve system was established...