Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement concluding TIME'S article-"Such matters [used v. new barrels] are actually pure custom; the Scotch prefer used sherry casks"-is nearly as irrelevant as saying that gin producers prefer not to age in barrels...
...Wings. AEC is deep in medical research. In preparation for the coming atomic age, it is studying the effect of radiation on man and other living organisms. This involves basic work on body cells and their chemistry, for radiation kills cells by causing subtle chemical changes inside them. At Argonne, AEC scientists are irradiating small bats and examining their tissue-thin wings under high-power microscopes, to study the effects of radiation on blood and its delicate corpuscles...
There is hardly a science that has not felt the touch of AEC. The commission is working on new alloys and other materials for the atomic age. It is deep in cancer research. Its program of making and distributing isotopes, both radioactive and stable, has worked a genuine revolution in U.S. science...
...Aged whisky, once so scarce, was becoming plentiful again. For weeks, U.S. distillers, who had already trimmed a few prices here & there, had been eyeing each other nervously to see which would be the first to cut some more. They knew that in July the first batch of postwar whisky, 68 million gallons laid down in 1945, came of age. Last week, the new price cuts finally came. Two of Kentucky's leading distillers, Brown-Forman and Glenmore, announced retail cuts of 50? to 65? a fifth on five brands of non-bonded straight whiskies...
...Dangerous Age. In Flushing, N.Y., Mrs. Mary Kovacik, 70, charged in court that her husband Joe, 66, had spanked her for "running around with the boys...