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...gallons of port wine...
What had Dom Pérignon done, visitors wondered, to deserve such gratitude? Villagers explained. Dom Pérignon had been the abbey's cellar keeper. It was he who discovered that bottles could be stoppered with cork. And, far more important, he had invented the bubbling wine known as champagne. For a long time, of course, people thought he had been helped by the Evil One. But every Frenchman knows now that champagne may be drunk by the most devout. Ah, yes, Dom Pérignon was a very great man indeed...
...liquor toped and swizzled in Sweden has been approximately halved during the past 15 years. Arrests for drunkenness have been halved. Crimes of violence have been reduced almost two-thirds. Swedes give the credit to Dr. Ivan Bratt. Yet he has just resigned as President of the Swedish Liquor & Wine Trust: a unique corporation, doing business with the strange object of making as few sales as possible yet always paying to contented shareholders...
Though the Liquor & Wine Trust (Vins och Spritcentralen) stands rock founded upon 7%, its other principles are more interesting. The return to shareholders can never be more than 7%. The surplus profits, amounting to 46% of sales last year, are turned over to the National Treasury, and usually constitute of the revenue of Sweden. Yet even these principles are not the most interesting...
Restrictions on the passbook sales of wines resemble those on liquor, but are lenient in proportion to the "lightness" of the wine...