Word: whiskeys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...undercutting by their larger competitors. New York last week provided a fertile field for the commission's study. Fixing of retail liquor prices, which had been permissible in the State of New York, became mandatory. After Sept. 1, customers would have to pay $6.10 for some brands of whiskey which the week before many stores had sold...
...Said Peru's slim Foreign Minister Enrique Garcia Sayan: "He has gone far beyond the needs of diplomatic good taste." Flanked by Armour and Donnelly, Marshall paid a visit to Quitandinha's Suite 400, the rooms of Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia. The Argentines served beer, whiskey, potato chips, but the abstemious Marshall took nothing. When he left, an Argentine said: "The conference is all fixed...
Bottoms Up. Shy, almost inarticulate with strangers, Hosford seldom leaves home except to go on summer cruises on lake freighters, whose captains are almost his only close friends. He sometimes brings the skippers home for sessions of story swapping during which he makes them drink straight whiskey by the tumbler...
...water"). Out of Salt Lake City, Sam Conino got a telegram; his wife had her baby O.K. The boys of Sam's local were all traveling without their wives and itching for a real party, and that set it off. When it was over, there were 29 empty whiskey bottles in that...
...Historians now have 88 chapters and 2,000 members in Texas. Six times a year, they publish a magazine, the Junior Historian, which is crammed with lore under such titles as "Uncle George Edgin's Recollections of Frontier Texas," "The First White Child Born in Texas," "Snakes and Whiskey" (the story of frontier medicine). Last week, its 43rd issue, written by and for the children, was in the works at Austin. Says Professor Webb proudly: "By gosh, we've done...