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Since 1998, the James Beard Foundation has awarded the title of America's Classics to multiple restaurants. [1] The award focuses on family-owned restaurants across the country that have been operating for at least a decade.
Weber Grills. $139 from Amazon ... Chesapeake Bay Candle factory workers make more than a half-million scented candles each month for sale at popular retail ... The first Zippo lighter was made in ...
The term became common starting in the late 1920s. A May 27, 1926 advertisement in The New York Times for "The Famous Old Sea Grill Lobster and Chop House" at 141 West 45th Street promised "A La Carte All Hours", "Moderate Prices", and "Blue Plate Specials". A December 2, 1928, article, lamenting the rise in prices that had made it difficult to ...
Wolseley built double-decker buses for the Birmingham Corporation. They also built many specials such as electric lighting sets and motor boat engines – catalogued sizes were from 12 hp to 250 hp with up to twelve cylinders and complete with gearboxes. Fire engines too and special War Office vehicles being a subsidiary of a major armaments ...
A revised version appeared in 1937 with a curved radiator grille and pressed-steel wheels replacing the wire-spoked ones. 1936-38 saloon with the updated grille 20,026 of the earlier cars and 39,537 of the post 1937 version were produced.
March 22 – President Roosevelt signs the Cullen–Harrison Act, an amendment to the Volstead Act, allowing the manufacture and sale from April 7 of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines, [1] 8 months before the full repeal of Prohibition in December. [2]
The Twenty Grand is the name given to the one-off custom 1933 Rollston Arlington Torpedo-bodied Duesenberg SJ ultra-luxury sedan. The design's initial price tag of US$20,000 ($470,746 in 2023 dollars [1]) during the height of the Great Depression infamously gave it its nickname of Twenty Grand. [2]
The Amilcar Pégase was an elegant car, offering a range of bodies that featured the stylish aerodynamic look that became fashionable in the middle 1930s. When first shown, the car had the headlights mounted up high within the grille, but this was abandoned in favour of a more traditional layout on the production models. [1]