Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning after, however, Frenchmen began to take what they call their "logical" view. They still hoped to sell the U. S. billions of bottles of wine, brandy & liqueurs but they pondered Le Temps' reminder that "Mr. Hoover linked the question of debt adjustment to reparations; in disarmament he took important steps; and he favored on several occasions cooperative efforts between the United States and the League of Nations...
Meanwhile German beer stocks boomed. Shares of Schultheiss, one of the world's largest breweries, bounded up eight marks to 66 1/2, followed by Oechsner and a joyous skyrocketing of Rhine Wine stocks...
...married Captain Frederick Pabst of the S. S. Huron. By the time the Chicago fire of 1871 left the Milwaukee brewers supreme in their territory Capt. Pabst had taken over the company and had his name painted over its portals. Capt. Pabst was an epicure, would rather sip good wine than quaff beer. So it was a proud day in the Pabst Corp. when one of their brews won the blue ribbon at the Chicago Fair. So pleased were the Pabsts that they called their leading brew after the Blue Ribbon which they attached to every bottle. When near beer...
They must therefore continue their toasts in expensive red wine "to the long life of President von Hindenburg!" and try as hard as possible to "tame" Adolf Hitler further. He was offered last August the Premiership of Prussia, the Vice Chancellorship of the Reich, three Federal Cabinet posts. He turned down all offers in hopes of winning a straight Nazi majority in the Reichstag...
...exclaimed: "Never have I had such a thrill as when I went aboard that ship! After being knocked about by thunderstorms in the most primitive craft that flies-then to stretch my legs under a table in the Graf's saloon and have a steward hand me a wine list about this long-the contrast left me speechless!" To the "Early Birds," as the pre-War airmen formally call themselves, Lieut. Settle brought news of one of their own. Just before his steamer reached Manhattan he had seen a radio despatch from Paris relating that Clifford Burke Harmon...