Word: beer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard Speck stumbling about and peered at him. Said one: "Hey! This guy's bleeding to death." Sprawled on a scabrous mattress in the 5 x 9-ft. cubicle, Speck lay in a pool of blood from a slashed wrist and arm vein, apparently inflicted with a broken beer bottle. Called by the night clerk, two patrolmen arrived in a police...
...Raised the purchase tax by 10% on an array of consumer goods, including autos, household appliances, beer, whisky and gasoline...
...voracious demands of over worked air conditioners resulted in power failures from New York to Nebraska, and in dozens of new kilowatt-output records for utility companies in between. At the peak of the heat in Memphis, beer sales foamed 40% above normal. Throughout the swelter belt, appliance stores were soon as bare of air conditioners and fans as if they had never been invented. "There comes a point," exulted a Manhattan dealer, "when a person can't stand it any longer-even if he knows it's only going to be for just one more night...
...that eight years later, when the truce was due to expire, it was Tuborg that suggested its extension. The two companies agreed that until the year 2000, they would meet once a year and split profits. Last year Carlsberg grossed $89 million on sales of 596 million bottles of beer, and Tuborg grossed $72 million on sales of 468 million bottles...
...Denmark, which wags have described as a constitutional monarchy in which the legislative power rests with the Parliament and the executive power with the breweries, the government goes along with the split. It ought to. Danish beer is taxed at home more heavily than any other beer in Europe, and last year, before the profits were divided, the government took its own share of $90 million. Above all, the friendly competition has helped Carlsberg and Tuborg build up the exports that the country vitally needs...