Business & Finance: Ham & Beer

RAISE THE STEINS

Beer is coming back!

Thus did Adolf Gobel Inc. (packers) boldly capitalize the Prohibition issue last week in their advertisements in the Brooklyn Eagle, Newark News, New York Journal and Sun. Gobel's had earlier skirted the question with large spreads headed first "Give us beer," shout 20,00,000 New Yorkers, later a little more vigorously with "Banish poison booze!" But last week's prophecy or announcement was boldest of all. The excuse for it: Gobel's promised to make "a generous cash contribution to a worthy society working for Prohibition reform" for each...

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