Word: haig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elephant Rumbles. Between extractions and fillings, Eskelund carried on a romance with a half-caste native girl named Oolong, went on elephant hunts ("You must stand still . . . until you hear the rumble in the elephant's belly"), drank Haig & Haig with the King. Later he moved to Shanghai, where he built a prosperous practice among the Chinese by knocking 10% off his bill (after first adding 10% to the charge). When his son went out from Denmark to join him in 1935, Dr. Eskelund's prestige was already high. Said the sign of one Chinese practitioner...
...prospects of plenty-and a buyers' strike-had already made Scotch prices drop from their $10 to $12 Christmas level to around $6. One New York City retailer last week advertised Ballantine's at $5.49, Haig & Haig 5-Star at $5.28. Gone altogether were the tie-in sales of rum and wine...
...French wines ran from vin blanc at $2 a bottle to Bollinger at $8. The supply of Haig & Haig Scotch was limitless at 50? a drink. The Queen Elizabeth's shops had plenty of pajamas, woolen socks, and suits such as Britons have not seen for years. Out to corner the North Atlantic traffic, Britain had spared no expense nor luxury, even if it came out of the stay-at-homes' cupboard...
Down through the centuries, Britain has delighted to honor its victorious commanders with money and peerages. The Duke of Wellington and Winston Churchill's armored ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, collected spectacular titles, estates and cash fortunes for their exploits. After World War I, Field Marshal Haig and Admiral of the Fleet Beatty received earldoms and ?100,000 apiece...
...information." Then he became first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, under Franklin Roosevelt, first chairman of the Maritime Commission and last peacetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. At the time of prohibition repeal, Joe set up Somerset Importers, Ltd., secured the U.S. distribution of Haig & Haig, King William IV, other famed brands. The venture was successful...