Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hatred of Germans, through the threats of Prohibition (to counteract which he put out Bevo, near-beer that sold well in Dry States until Prohibition actually arrived and 'legging began), through Prohibition itself with the necessity of trying to make money out of near-beer, malt syrup, and back to Repeal. Meantime he has carried on the Busch tradition of generosity (generosity is made of rubber: one of his servants died in 1929 and left him $19,000). Somewhat high-eyebrowed by some of St. Louis' more snobbish socialites, the Busches never got into the St. Louis Country...
...Missouri's Governor Parks signed a beer bill under which the great St. Louis breweries could promptly open. ¶The malt syrup industry started a drive to hold home-brewers in line on the plea that their domestic product was cheaper and stronger than the commercial article. ¶From Florida Col. Jacob Ruppert, president of the U. S. Brewers' Association, whose Manhattan plant is set to turn out 2,000,000 bbl. per year, announced: "We'll find the old saloon completely out of the picture. We'll find prototypes of the German beer garden springing...
...tall Charles Shipman Payson did after he graduated from Yale in 1921 was to marry Joan Whitney, daughter of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney and niece of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Harry Payne Whitney. One of the next things he did was to become interested in taking sugar syrups from Cuba to the U. S. Refined Syrups, Inc. made no money, claimed two engineers, until they suggested to Charlie Payson that he ship syrup sufficiently low in sugar content to dodge the $40-a-ton duty, pay 83? instead. Because this solution fermented within ten days, the engineers told...
Starting with a maple-syrup agency and her husband's name, Bea managed to struggle along till she gathered in Delilah, a great black mammy with a beautiful disposition and a gift for cooking. The first B. Pullman waffle shop on the Board Walk was such a success that others followed. Bea, gradually discovering unsuspected executive talents, went on from hard-won struggles to easy victories, finally dotted half the U. S. with B. Pullmans. When she plunged into Manhattan real estate she emerged a millionairess. Meantime she was buying her only daughter social-educational advantages, often wishing...
...managed the Cartagena-Magdalena Railway in Colombia (which United Fruit has just taken over from the government). In 1908 he became a director of Old Colony and United Fruit. He is famed for his ability to mix Jamaica's famed planters' punch (one part lime, two parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books on the Caribbean, owns many an odd volume, belongs to a dozen learned societies and most of Boston's swank clubs...