Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rock apparently suffered from the competition of cheaper carbonated waters. Canada Dry's main trouble, on the other hand, lay in the fact that with Repeal, it went into the liquor business. It bought an interest in a brewery, secured exclusive U. S. sales rights on Johnny Walker Scotch whiskey, Sandeman's wines and Cinzano vermouth. Finally it began marketing Canada Dry gin. The company now admits that these liquor ventures were not altogether successful. Net profit for 1934 of $439,500 was, according to President Parry Dorland Saylor, "not all that we hoped it would be." Like...
...story is a pleasing variation on an old theme. Gary Cooper is a novelist whose literary efforts have suffered through his intimacy with the more alcoholic New York set. Having poured out their substance in Scotch and sodas, he and wife, Helen Vinson, set out for the homestead in New England...
...King George and Queen Mary were gratified when the Socialist majority in the Scotch town council of Greenock which voted last month to boycott Their Majesties' Silver Jubilee (starting May 6) were defied last week by the council's loyal minority. Manifestoed the minority: "In order that the children of Greenock may not be denied the pleasure of celebrating along with their brothers and sisters throughout the Empire, a committee has been formed to organize local observances the extent of which depends upon the response to this appeal for funds...
...Clay Williams first went up from North Carolina to deal with the New Deal on behalf of the tobacco business. He was a powerfully-formed, slow-spoken man of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Iredell County, part of Representative Bob Doughton's Congressional district. As a young lawyer he was picked by the late Richard J. Reynolds and brought up in the tradition of the company that makes Camels: a company in which every director is a salaried officer and gets down to the plant in the morning at the same hour as the men. That tradition does...
...from a garage on the ground floor. Douglas pulled on a bathrobe, yelled "Fire" at his sleeping younger brother Richard, stumbled downstairs with Richard after him. While Douglas & Richard drove out two of the seven cars in the garage, a Negro servant crawled through a window to rescue a Scotch terrier they had left upstairs. In the house nearby Senator Schall, with wife and daughter, awoke, sat tight. The lodge burned almost flat. Aboard the cruiser Australia, twice called off her course by the distressed Schooner Seth Parker (TIME, Feb. 18), the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George...