Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Florida officially totted up a casualty list of twelve dead and seven missing. In addition, a Negro was shot to death by a white man who said he caught him looting a windowless Miami liquor store...
...scouted Robinson until they knew everything about him but what he dreamed at night. Jackie scored well on all counts. He did not smoke (his mother had asthma and cigaret fumes bothered her); he drank a quart of milk a day and didn't touch liquor; he rarely swore; he had a service record (as Army lieutenant in the 27th Cavalry) and two years of college (at U.C.L.A.). He had intelligence, patience and willingness. He was aware of the handicaps his race encounters, but he showed it not by truculence or bitterness, and not by servility...
...Italian Swiss Colony's Pinot Noir and California port. But for 14 different varieties out of the 45 judged, the entries were so poor that no gold medals were awarded. This was thin news for the industry, already harassed by the same drop in sales that had hit liquor companies. With much of last year's record crush still unsold, vintners plan to crush less this year -and hope that the public's palate is not as educated as the wine-tasters...
...Custom. In Valdosta, Ga., the watchful city council announced that henceforth liquor licenses would be required for any place of business selling...
...price-fixing. Prominent in the commission's reports to Congress are the various "fair trade" laws passed by the states to protect small businessmen from undercutting by their larger competitors. New York last week provided a fertile field for the commission's study. Fixing of retail liquor prices, which had been permissible in the State of New York, became mandatory. After Sept. 1, customers would have to pay $6.10 for some brands of whiskey which the week before many stores had sold...