Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious move was to invite House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to dinner in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite to enlist their aid for Ave. With high hopes that a convivial evening and some earnest talk would do the job, Truman produced a bottle of bourbon and, in the long-established spirit of Capitol Hill, proposed that the three "strike a blow for liberty."* But the food was an unfortunately long time in arriving and, although the evening was mighty convivial, a top Truman aide confessed later: "They just never did get down to any kind...
...also a new twist on the old historians' axiom: the more luxury, the quicker a nation degenerates. This was true enough in Babylon, Greece, Rome, Bourbon France and Czarist Russia, where luxury perched atop a pyramid of misery, ignorance and hopeless poverty-Fabergé eggs sprouting from a dungheap. But in the U.S. luxury has come to mean not a declining economy but an expanding one. It is not a historic nightmare but a large part of the American dream. In the words of Ben Franklin, who saw ahead of his time: "Is not the hope...
...rate hangar-sized commissary (stocking electrical appliances, rock-'n'-roll records and quick-frozen Little Bo Pizzas shipped from the U.S.), or in any of the seven handy branch stores (total 1955 sales: $4,100,000). On the way home, they can stop for Scotch or bonded bourbon ($1.20 a fifth) at a Navy-run liquor store...
LOWER LIQUOR PRICES for hotel room service are kicking up flurry in Manhattan. By chopping prices for Scotch from $12 to $7 a bottle, bourbon from $12.50 to $7.50, Hotel Roosevelt boosted June room-service bottle sales 273%, dollar volume 143%. Other hotels, where prices for Scotch, etc. range as high as $13.50, protest price-cutting, say that they cannot afford lower prices...
...Fourth of July garden party in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen led the Soviet Union's top topers, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin, to a table laden with Scotch and bourbon. TV crewmen popped a microphone under the nose of Bulganin, who genially obliged with a toast to the American people and the health of Dwight Eisenhower. As some 600 diplomats and tourists milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets...