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...shrewd owners take elaborate pains to maintain and exploit their secrecy. The Angostura formula is brewed twice weekly in 10,000 gallon hatches in a labyrinthine "secret room." Employees at Pimm's Ltd., the makers of a secret gin sling (Pimm's Cup) whipped up in the 1850s by a London chophouse bartender, are forced to take a company loyalty oath. Only four Carthuisan monks know the formula for Chartreuse, and travel between monasteries to make it. The ingredients for Coke's basic 7-X formula are ordered from separate suppliers in undisclosed quantities, and the formula...
...Democrats began as the Madison party in Congress and the presidential [Democratic] party was founded and built by Jefferson. The symbolic founder of the Republican presidential party was Abraham Lincoln; the congressional [Republican] party had its origin in the opposition to Pierce and Buchanan on the Hill during the 1850s and with the congressional Republicans who went on to fight Lincoln during the Civil War and to dominate Reconstruction...
...crown colony, based on Captain James Cook's discovery of it in 1777. But in one of history's mildest international disputes, the U.S. has never relinquished, nor seriously pressed, its own claim, based on the working of guano deposits by an American firm there in the 1850s. Occupied jointly by the U.S. and Britain in World War II, the atoll supported a U.S. airbase. Britain had another Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, 200 miles south of Java. In 1958 the island was transferred to Australia, which still uses it as a western outpost of the Woomera...
...long list of promises." Naturally, he did not concentrate on the 2.3% unemployment rate which, though falling, is about twice the usual figure for Australia. Labor Party Candidate Arthur A. Calwell, 65, grandson of a U.S. gold prospector who left for Down Under in the gold rush of the 1850s, emphasized the unemployment issue, promised a grab bag full of state-paid welfare plans ranging from higher pensions to free public hospitals...
Ishi belonged to a small tribe, the Yahi, who lived in the scrub-tangled foothills of volcanic Lassen Peak, high in the Cascade Range. Early Spanish and Mexican settlers had little contact with the Yahi, but the gold seekers who flooded California in the 1850s hunted them down like wild animals. The Yahi had no guns; they fought their pathetic best with stone-tipped spears and arrows, but by 1872 they were believed extinct. A dozen years later, ranchers in the foothills began to miss occasional calves and sheep, and sometimes caches of food were pilfered from mountain cabins. Rumors...