Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed for his philippics against the U. S. tariff. With his usual candor Mr. Bennett said that what he was after was French orders for Canada's surplus wheat, and rumors were not long in growing that what M. Flandin was after was Canadian orders for French surplus wine. In recent years the French have shown a tendency to buy more wheat from Canada, less from the U. S. This year France must buy, from somewhere, about 75,000,000 bushels of wheat, can of course buy where she chooses or is induced...
Long have U. S. citizens been peddled kegs of California and New York grape juice, destined to become wine in the citizens' homes. These were semi-bootleg sales, unnoticed by the Prohibition Bureau. There was no advertising, only a door-to-door canvass. But last week in Milwaukee there appeared large billboard and full-page newspaper advertisements for a grape concentrate called "Vine-Glo." Beside thin-stemmed glasses of ruby and amber liquids were the words: "You can't buy it from peddlers. Not on sale at any store. Never served in any restaurant-BUT YOU CAN HAVE...
...Fruit Industries, Inc., an association of California grapemen backed in their effort to dispose of a bumper crop by a $1,300,000 loan from the Federal Farm Board (TIME, Oct. 20). At once Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock was besieged with queries. Previously he had said: "Wine may be made in the home for use in the home." Then, when that remark received wide publicity, he had said: "It is all a question of intent. . . ." Following that, his men had obtained the indictment of nine California grapemen for advertising that "fine old wine" could be made from their...
...Vine-Glo" is obviously intended to turn into wine. But the method of turning it (simply remove the bung) is not mentioned on billboards or in the newspapers. At no place in Fruit Industries' advertising does the word "wine" appear. Also, while the advertising says, "There is only one way to get it," and directs prospective purchasers to some 200 druggists and 100 grocers in Milwaukee (agents who do not carry the kegs, simply take orders), the advertising does not describe the servicing and bottling performed by the grapemen themselves when the wine has matured...
...ceremony," said he to assembled correspondents, "will have the complete character of a wedding according to Orthodox rites. The character of the rites will be unmistakably apparent in the exchange of nuptial crowns by the King and Queen and in the partaking of the blessed wine from a special cup. These constitute essential acts of the Orthodox marriage service...