Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since their dramatic divorce in 1948, Russia and Marshal Tito's Communist Yugoslavia agreed last week to resume doing business. In Belgrade the two governments signed a short-term agreement, bartering Russian crude oil, manganese, cotton and newsprint for Yugoslavian ethyl alcohol, tobacco, meat and hemp. Tito had also hoped to get some wheat for Yugoslavia, but the Russians, who have been having serious trouble with grain production (TIME. June 14), confessed that they had none to spare...
State Department analysts drew a sober conclusion from his remarks: one part party line (but not entirely, since the party here never credits the U.S. with peaceful intentions), one part alcohol...
SUPERSALESMAN Dudley J. Le-Blanc, concocter of the leeringly ballyhooed patent medicine, Hadacol (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951), is open for business again with a new vitamin-and-alcohol cure-all he calls Karyon ($1.25 for a 7-oz bottle). Compared to bad-tasting Hadacol, says Medicine Man LeBlanc, "this has a very classy taste. We've flavored it with lemon extract...
...Liberalization of trade at home and abroad, to strip away masses of protectionist tariffs, duties and subsidies which have made French industry the most coddled in Western Europe. ¶ Agricultural reforms aimed at forcing the peasants to cut back production of uneconomic crops (e.g., wine, sugar beets for alcohol), and farm more efficiently. ¶ Overhaul of the maladministered cradle-to-grave social security program. <¶ An increase in real purchasing power, by linking wages to increased industrial profits. Inefficient plants must go to the wall; workers must be retrained and moved to new locations, especially in southern France where hydroelectric...
...James B. E. Olson, resigned supervisor of the New York City Alcohol Tax Unit, awaiting trial for tax evasion...