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...timberyard near "Rum Quay," soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted firemen came by fireboat and engine. As the rum burnt, its evaporated alcohol made the firemen tipsy. They put on gas masks. All over town Londoners could see the fire's reflection...
...Louis sat up late to get the first taste of its famed foam. Citizens waited in their cars outside the Busch and Falstaff breweries, only ones operating, for the first issue of 3.2%. The Busch brewery had a brass band ready to play at midnight. When midnight came, steam whistles and sirens drowned the Busch music. By afternoon, the St. Louis beer supply was woefully...
...Many a woman, taught to drink by Prohibition, last week hooked a French heel over a brass rail. Tower Magazines, Inc. distributors of mass periodicals through Woolworth Stores, asked its middleclass, female readership if they would serve beer at home. "Yes" answered 76%. * States which Drys believe will fail to ratify the 21st Amendment: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah...
...Douglases, the new Director of the Budget, and his wife, are about the best of the new crop. He was quite desperate the other morning, when, after explaining the cuts to the veterans, he was confronted with the fact that some $500,000 brass windows were just being placed in the Justice Department...
Herbert Clark Hoover went to Reno, Nev., to "enjoy a ride over the Sierra," with his onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Early next morning a little brass-trimmed locomotive pulling an ancient yellow coach took them out of Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when...