Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dutch workers have spent their extra pay on high living. Per-capita TV purchases are higher in The Netherlands than almost anywhere else in Europe. Per-capita consumption of jenever, the Dutch gin, and of beer and wine has jumped 50% . AMSTERDAM SWINGS Too, boasted a Dutch newspaper, reporting the Carnaby Street look among the city's towheaded boys and miniskirted girls. Demand for consumer goods has set trade figures whirling like windmills. A Dutch surplus of $14 million in trade with West Germany during the first half of 1965 has turned into a $74 million edge...
...addition to those who simply resell state store liquor, there are countless neighborhood retailers of moonshine liquor including beer-like "home brew" and a local concoction known variously as "white lightning" or "Joe Louis" (the name stems from the punch it packs...
...Baltimore Orioles had just beaten the Kansas City Athletics 6-1 to clinch the American League pennant-Baltimore's first in 69 years-and the Birds were flying. The delirious Orioles poured magnums of champagne over each other's heads; beer cans, pickles, jars of mustard and cartons of milk sailed through the dressing room. Club Owner Jerry Hoffberger was heaved bodily into the shower. He staggered out soaking wet, grabbed a telephone, and placed a person-to-person call to a Mr. William O. DeWitt in Cincinnati. "Mr. DeWitt?" crooned Hoffberger. "I just want to tell...
Last year W. R. Grace & Co. recorded its first billion-dollar sales figure, with profits of $45 million. And Peter Grace has every expectation that his new beer company will contribute to a bubbly future. The Miller Brewing Co. last year reported a record profit of $7,200,000 on sales of about $99 million. That being the case, why was Mrs. Mulberger willing to sell? She had a very special reason. A former Catholic and a divorcee, she now attends an Independent Fundamental church in Wisconsin. "The brewery was not the will of God for me," she said. "That...
...heard of they often bought it with a grand flourish, thus recommending its advantages and their expertise to friends. Most of them were feeling the gorge of possessive passion that comes when one is first deeply convinced that he is going to Harvard; the only flaw is that the beer mugs and stationery purchased in this fit don't evaporate with...