Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, Nigeria seemed tranquil enough. A dozen ocean-going freighters thrashed seaward from Lagos' Apapa Quay, laden with cocoa, groundnuts, rubber and timber. In the Eastern Region's capital of Enugu, helmeted coal miners queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes...
...protection fee is more/if the liquor sold is moonshine. Produced in backyard stills to avoid the state's exorbitant whiskey tax, moonshine is occasionally poisoned by the lead piping often used in the stills, but it is cheap. It is the favorite drink of the unemployed or of those, like construction workers, whose employment depends on the vagaries of business cycles and white foremen. For retailers of moonshine, the customer turnover is great, the clientele uproarious, the profit margin low, and the danger ever-present that state agents will move in on whatever still happens at the moment...
...sits occasionally as judge in Recorder's Court (police court). He doubts that more than a few policemen take bribes, and he also believes that a police crack-down on whiskey houses would have little effect. "If you made it a capital offense," he says, "they're going to drink and gamble...
...lesser offenses, Denaburg says, "They have a hell of a lot of whiskey houses operating in niggertown. It doesn't really hurt society for Negroes to sit in a house and drink whiskey and have skin games. They're not bothering anyone else besides themselves...
Grace's main thrust has been into chemicals, and the company is now the U.S.'s eighth largest chemical manufacturer-which puts it among giants. It is also big in the food-and-drink field. Having already acquired chocolate companies in the U.S. and Holland, Grace so far this year has picked up Nalley's, Inc., a snack-food producer in Tacoma, Wash., with annual sales of about $45 million, and Marela, Ltd., a pickle firm in Britain. Before the end of 1966, Grace hopes to buy out Sea-Pak Corp. of St. Simons Island...