Word: schenley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manages to give a dismal view of what "life in the penthouses" can sink to. Everyone hates everyone else; no one, except the everpresent proletarian butler, ever says anything pleasant to anyone else; and more highballs are downed per foot of film than in any movie turned out since Schenley's stopped producing propaganda flickers. Miss Dunne's ultimately successful attempt to get rid of her "unfinished business," which in this case is her still unrequited love for her city-slicker boyfriend, constitutes what might be called the remainder of the plot...
...this neat scheme all nosegays go to big, fast-moving, hard-punching Lewis Rosenstiel, tsar of the U.S. liquor industry, boss of No. 1 U.S. rectifier Schenley Distillers. In late 1938, dead-sure war was coming, Rosenstiel began bulwarking his company against war's impact. He pow-wowed with all his executives, warned them hard times were on the way. Then he started barking orders like an Army sergeant, did not stop until he was sure Schenley was as shortage-proof as Rosenstiel could make...
...income, especially of farmers, that any subsequent national defense boom would develop at the expense of general consumer purchasing power & freedom to use it. Down sharply for the week were consumer-goods stocks like Chrysler (19⅜ points to 62⅛), General Foods (7 points to 41), Schenley (4⅜ points...