Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans topers fared no worse than those of most other cities in the matter of prices. Sixteen-year-old straight whiskeys like Paul Jones, Four Roses and Antique were going at $3 a pint. Jamerson's Irish brought $5 a fifth; Royal George Scotch $4. Cook's Imperial champagne, made in St. Louis ($5 a fifth) sold at national pars...
Chicago was long on U. S. whiskeys, short on Scotch. Old Taylor, Old McBrayer, Old Grand Dad, Four Roses, brought $3 a pint. No Johnny Walker or Haig & Haig were in sight...
...reatier, and labor groups. Labor can be bought off by a meaningless advisory board which can be proclaimed in glory and stified at leisure, and the rentier class can be taken in by the prospect of no write-off of bad investment. Then the government entrepreneurs can proceed to scotch both of them by the invisible, intangible method of raising prices by restriction of production, allowing inefficient industries through tariffs...
...around $30 a case. Testifying in Washington last week, distillers said they could retail blended whiskey for $1.50 a quart but they did not specify the quality. Most whiskey men believe that in a few years even good aged whiskey will be as low as $1 a quart. Good Scotch will probably not go under $35 per case. Gin will probably retail for $1 to $1.50 per quart...
...memorial to sailors lost in the Maine (1898), Cleveland telegraphed him: "I decline to allow my sorrow for those who died on the Maine to be perverted to an advertising scheme for the New York Journal." One of his letters to Andrew Carnegie thanks him for a present of Scotch; another (written as a trustee of Princeton University) advises Carnegie to give a proposed benefaction in the form of endowment for the Graduate School. (Instead, Carnegie gave Princeton an artificial lake...