In short, I 'ave determined to sell out my stocks and my shares; my breweries are seven points 'igher than when I bought them; I knew it was a good investment.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
The German States possess, every one of them, more Crown lands and forests, in proportion to their size, than any other countries in Europe, some of them, indeed, being able to meet half their public expenditure from this source alone; and besides their territorial domain, most of them have an even more extensive industrial domain of State mines, or State breweries, or State banks, or State foundries, or State potteries, or State railways, and their rulers are still projecting fresh conquests in the same direction by means of brandy and tobacco monopolies.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The manager of one of the biggest breweries in the United States has not tasted liquor of any kind in the last twenty years.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter