Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of the distillers' code came the importers' marketing agreement. Article III of this agreement provided for minimum import quotas based on the peak years 1910-14, in which the U. S. bought overseas some 4,000,000 gal. of spirits, some 7,000,000 gal. of wine yearly. No restrictions were placed on the number of U. S. importing firms, but the total business was to be distributed by FACA according to "legitimate trade needs" of individual houses...
...president of Distillers and Brewers Corp. of America, made a position for him in the sales department of Distillers & Brewers. Distillers & Brewers, a $7,500,000 corporation formed in August, has a distillery in Jersey City, another in Peoria, breweries in Ohio and Pennsylvania, importing connections with most important wine and liquor regions in Europe. It plans to market on a national scale practically every known type of alcoholic drink. If its ambitious program is carried out there will be plenty of room in its selling organization for George Christian's abilities...
...unctuous announcement of the distillers that they would have an abundance of whiskey on the market at $1.50 a quart, the cheapest blended whiskey obtainable costs $2.75 and the uncut variety runs from $5.00 to $8.00. Even more outrageous than the prices of hard liquors are those charged for wine. Domestic wines sell for about $1.50 a quart, while the imported product is considered cheap at $3.00; served in a hotel dining room these prices are nearly doubled. Liquor by the individual drink is more reasonably priced, but even then it could be cut in half and still yield...
...prices even more. The average college student, for example, is not, and indeed cannot, pay $1.50 for a fifth of gin, when he can buy alcohol for $4.00 a gallon, thereby making his own gin for $.40 a quart. Worse still, all efforts to make America into a wine drinking country will certainly fail dismally when such enormously high prices are levied; those who mours the hard liquor propensities of Americans should consider the fact that in France, the country which they generally set up as a model, a good vin ordinaire may be had for $.30 and a wine...
...time which may be characterized as the Memorial-Hall-long-table-biscuit-throwing era. What is more, the generations which it oversaw had not, for the most part, discovered that intemperance is next to godliness, and that grain alcohol is much cheaper, yea, and more effective than wines. Perhaps today's undergraduate would carry his dypsomania with him into the dining halls. A great many sensible people feel that he would not, that encouraging the use of wine and beers in the dining halls would, as it were, short-circuit his craving for stouter stuff, and that the comparative austerity...