Word: bourbonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter of 1937-38 a frightened man named Richard Whitney tried to peg the stock of Distilled Liquors Corp. at 9. He failed and went to jail. Last week, having totted up its third consecutive deficit, $74,149 in 1938, Distilled Liquors (applejack, bourbon, rye) announced it was going to expand into the importing business (16 varieties of wine, three whiskies). Its stock...
From incredible mixtures of Bourbon...
Married. P'rincess Maria-Francesca-Anna-Romana, 24, youngest daughter of Vittorio Emanuele III, and Prince Louis-Charles-Marie-Leopold-Robert of Bourbon-Parma, 39; in Rome...
...time L'lle Bourbon reached the Suez Canal, the women's arguments were as unbearably hot as the weather. Their bickering drove the senior radio operator and ship's doctor ashore at Djibouti. De Boers took aboard a doctor whom he found in French Somaliland. At Madagascar most of the white crew mutinied, and blacks were signed on in their places. Then the fractious expedition set off for frigid St. Paul...
Last week an amateur radio operator in Bremerton, Wash., (about 11,000 miles from St. Paul), picked up a garbled message from L'lle Bourbon: "Ran Short Of Coal Due Bad Weather . . . Hope Madagascar Will Send Rescue. . . ." Expecting the worst, the French Government ordered a rescue ship to sail at once from Madagascar...