Word: gin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farmers save $20 per acre compared with the stiffer cost of chemical weeding. The only drawback to the system is that the geese, grown fat from their weed-gorging, occasionally trample down the young cotton. But after their chores are done, and the cotton is safely off to the gin, the geese themselves can always be peddled to help pay for the loss...
...market (most popular: Cutty Sark and J & B, two of the lightest blends), and light Canadian blends now account for two of the three biggest U.S. sellers (Seagrams' imported V.O. and Hiram Walker's Canadian Club). The market share of such high-spirited "white goods" as gin and vodka has jumped from 9% to 19% since...
...origin, each product has found such popular appeal that shrewd owners take elaborate pains to maintain and exploit their secrecy. The Angostura formula is brewed twice weekly in 10,000 gallon hatches in a labyrinthine "secret room." Employees at Pimm's Ltd., the makers of a secret gin sling (Pimm's Cup) whipped up in the 1850s by a London chophouse bartender, are forced to take a company loyalty oath. Only four Carthuisan monks know the formula for Chartreuse, and travel between monasteries to make it. The ingredients for Coke's basic 7-X formula are ordered...
...Kensett, Ark., where Mills grew up, his father was one of the most prosperous men in town, owner of a busy country store that sold everything from horehound drops to horse collars. (Mills's mother, 77, still helps run the store.) Later on, Ardra Mills acquired a cotton gin and an interest in the local bank. Wilbur worked in the store during his boyhood, but early in life he was struck with awed admiration of William A. Oldfield, the bouncy, genial Congressman from the district. In his travels around his constituency, Oldfield frequently visited Kensett and stopped at the Mills...
...from the rich and give to the deserving poor-themselves. The grim workhouses, stews and drinking dens of London become playgrounds for boys with a taste for adventure. The biggest laugh of the evening comes when Fagin paternally growls at his charges, "Shut up and drink yer gin...