Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist government achieved a tax reduction this week. It eliminated the 2% sales tax (levied for educational purposes) on groceries, fruit, vegetables, soft drinks, candies, restaurant meals. The tax will still apply to such luxuries as whiskey and beer. The reason for the reduction: revenue from other sources (liquor sales, farm income...
...wife (they have two sons) live only a few blocks from his office, in a small Park Avenue apartment cluttered with hunting prints, a 1,000-volume sporting library, piles of personal scrap books. He also has a 475-acre farm outside Ithaca, N.Y. He very seldom touches liquor, favors lemonade. His only vice is chain-smoking. To match his thinking, the cigarets are king-sized...
...nightclubs must still tread warily to get around the licensing laws, which forbid liquor sales after 11 p.m. The commonest dodge is the "bottle party" (invented some 14 years ago), which provides that, for a year's fee of about ?3, guests sign an invitation list and a wine order. This permits signers to "invite themselves" to the club and drink liquor ostensibly purchased and owned by them, but kept on the premises...
Last week's victims of his satire: the "Men of Distinction" liquor ads, tedious radio news features, tobacco auctioneers and cigaret advertising (". . . Try the taste test. Simply take a package of Morgan cigarets, remove the paper from each cigaret [and] pour the tobacco into a bowl. Now, taste...
Heidt reached into his pocket and began counting out thousand-dollar bills. Contratto's jaw dropped. "I have $45.000 worth of liquor in the cellar." he demurred...