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Atlas Beer Delivery by Airplane
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Ira Chambers of the Atlas Distributing Co. is shown receiving the first case of Atlas Beer, of Chicago, Illinois, from the pilot of a Northwest Airlines plane at the airport. Three other men and one woman are standing nearby holding bottles of beer.
April 7, 1933
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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