Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GIN & tonic has become such a popular drink that U.S. sales of quinine water will probably triple this summer to 3,000,000 cases. Canada Dry's Quinac will get the biggest share of the market. But Britain's famed Schweppes tonic, now bottled in the U.S. by Pepsi-Cola, will be more competitive this year, with its price cut from about 40? to 16?-18? a bottle...
Dixie Treat. In Washington, B.C., the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that it had seized some Alabama moon shine whisky, selling for $2 a pint, made from the following ingredients: half a gal lon of water, one quart of orange juice, two pints of gin, one small jar of sassafras flavoring, a dash of sugar, half...
...Officer Archibald Pross got a divorce on grounds of cruelty after summing up his life with Rosa: i) he had served her breakfast in bed for 20 years; 2) she kicked him while he was scrubbing the floor; 3) she smashed her glass when he put water in her gin; 4) she accepted love letters and liquor from his next-door neighbor; 5) he was so terrified of her that he frequently slept on the floor -"an unpleasant experience in winter...
...walls are covered with the weirdest sort of posters you could imagine. Everybody drinks a lot and everybody's happy. Scads of Americans, and what kids they are!" Kiki discovered she had a voice, but "I can't sing unless I'm ginny." Too much gin broke her health, also put her in a Villefranche jail, from which she was bailed out by U.S. sailors...
...community, and to use the committee bearings as a sounding beard for the speeches of the Congressmen. These conclusions are supported by the frequent committee assertion that it possesses the information it seeks; by the committee practice of holding first an executive session and then a public hear in gin which the witness must state his address so that he can be subjected to community pressure; by Congressman Velde's statement that while the Jenner committee is investigating Communism, his committee's function is to express the individual Communists on the campuses, and by the House Un-American Activities Committee...