Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after agency of Berry Bros, of London, who have been established since the XVII century as wine merchants, and at the present time are acting as wine merchants to the royal household of England. They produce such well known brands as "Cutty Sark" and "St. James's Blend" Scotch Whiskies, and are famous for their "London...
...names and prices of 63 well-known wines, whiskeys, brandies. Also told was how, when and where the liquor could be purchased-from Park & Tilford, oldtime fancy grocers, "if and when Repeal comes." A $10 deposit would guarantee delivery of a case of Old Grand Dad ($71.80), White Horse Scotch ($39-77) or a dozen bottles of Sauterne ($28.40) "as soon as legal." What startled many a reader was not Park & Tilford's high prices, for most of the items could be duplicated by reliable 'leggers at the same figures, but the fact that the advertisement, first...
...upon the superficial amusements to which they are accustomed. But after a few years of adjustment, the thinkers will recognize that all their free hours are not needed for relaxation; and they will then begin to use some of their time for study. This was the case with the Scotch farmers of the nineteenth century who learned to use their long winter evenings for study instead of for outworn amusements, and thus developed one of the most cultured middle classes ever known. There is no reason why the modern working classes cannot do the same...
...loss of this profitable trade, they expanded their grocery and restaurant business in the last decade, but at the first hint of repeal more than a year ago President Gordon Stewart began to renew his European contracts. Their gin is Booth's High & Dry, their Scotch Sanderson's Vat 69, their champagne Heidsieck's Monopole, their sherries, ports and Madeiras John Harvey & Sons'. When the Schulte interests sold Overholt and Large distilleries to National Distillers last spring. Park & Tilford received a big slice of the cash but lost their whiskey supply. Since then President Stewart...
Distillers Co., Ltd., Britain's monster whiskey trust, has kept U. S. liquormen in a dither all summer. Its dozens of brands include most of the best known Scotch whiskeys and the world's leading gin-Gordon's. Like Bacardi, Johnny Walker, John Haig, White Horse, Dewar's, etc. are probably more widely known in the U. S. today (through faked labels) than they were before Prohibition. Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business. Wined & dined by nearly every U. S. liquorman...