Word: brew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Licorice extracts have been used since the days of Hippocrates for the relief of indigestion, but Scientist Doll has little faith in old wives' remedies. Still, he could not forget that digitalis, the first useful drug for heart disease, came from an old wives' brew of foxglove, and he remembered that a Dutch pharmacist had made a reputation during World War II selling a licorice concoction for ulcers. Dr. Doll decided that there was no harm in trying...
...barking on TV for a commercial product was unthinkable. Now Barbara Stanwyck, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor, Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson all appear for Maxwell House, too-but only for $50,000 apiece. You can hear Robinson clearly enough, as he looks toughly over the brew and snarls...
...differences and emotional misunderstandings ignited by the passage of the Townshend duties in 1767. The colonists resisted these duties so effectively that parliament soon had to repeal them, but the tax on imported tea was left in force. By 1770, however, efforts to organize a boycott of the wicked brew had failed. The prosperous colonies had grown too fond of the beverage to give it up, enabling smugglers to carry on a thriving trade in untaxed Dutch...
...picture of "Goldwater a standing over is witch's brew of extremism, an evil oncoction," was conjured by Canon James P. Breeden, co-chairman of the of the Massachusetts Freedom Movement. Withstanding the boos of Goldwater hecklers, Breeden sharply assailed Goldwater's civil rights record...
...Toronto-based Canadian Breweries (Carling, Red Cap Ale) is the world's largest maker of beer and ale. Cornerstone of the financial and industrial empire of Financier Edward Plunket Taylor, it has not only grabbed a commanding 47% of the Canadian market, but has also pushed its brew from 62nd to fourth place in the U.S. since 1949. It has moved into England, Scotland and Ireland by buying control of local companies, now stands among Britain's top three in lager beer. It is working out a deal to make beer in Hong Kong, is also shipping half...