Word: cognac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Package store owners are hoping for a cold day. "If it's warm," Varsity Liquor Store manager Frank Purcell said, "They'll buy beer. If it's cold, they'll buy the hard stuff." Brandy and cognac sales have been up all week and almost all of the punch bowls at the Hamilton Liquor Store are rented...
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Every Wednesday night, a chubby French biologist named Jean Rostand* sips a glass of cognac in a railroad cafe at Ville-d'Avray and plunges bravely but vainly into a village chess tournament. The rest of his week is spent in lonelier fun: a lifelong love affair with a house full of frogs and toads...
Born the son of a French brandy maker in the little town of Cognac, he quit school at 16, in plenty of time to earn a million dollars by the time he was 40. During World War I he pooled French and British shipping; in the Depression he lost his first million, and in the '30s he became one of the world's most active and least-known financial backroom boys. Monnet's influence on events has often been decisive. It was Monnet's insistence that the Allies should place large aircraft orders...