Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South African law holds that white man's liquor is colored man's poison. Last week, Minister of Justice Charles Swart broadened the definition of "colored" to include Chinese, proclaimed that henceforth no Chinese will be allowed to buy liquor without a special permit...
...decree, Shao or any other Chinese attending the event would not be able to get a drink. Shao refused to go. He wrote to the government protesting the "stigma of inferiority" implied in Swart's decree. After all, said Shao, "we Chinese were the first race to drink liquor. That...
Chosen as a plant site because of the availability of water and, potentially, of power, Pike County is rolling farming country, where the last big excitement was during Prohibition, when "Feds" roamed the hills looking for corn-liquor stills. Last week most of the 17,000 residents of Pike County, assured that they wouldn't run any serious risk of radiation sickness, greeted the new federal invasion with unalloyed enthusiasm. Land prices were already soaring in anticipation of an eventual influx of 4,000-5,000 permanent employees of the new plant and 30,000 construction workers who will...
...creditors had fallen for a scheme of classic simplicity. Starting two years ago, he offered to buy fellow officers' cars for 30% more than their value, and pay off in five months. Then he turned the cars into ready cash to invest in any likely venture (except the liquor and cigarette businesses and outright gambling; these were taboo, he said, under the Baptist principles he had been converted to while in flight training at Texas' Randolph Field in 1944). "I want to help humanity," he said. "Brazil is a country with very little money. With...
...Neill stretches them taut with manias -Hogan's is for money, Josie's for sex, Jim's for liquor-then lets them slack with remorse. Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is going to sell the farm out from under them, and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there till her father appears with witnesses. Josie reneges on the scheme when she finds 1) that her father has lied about the farm, 2) that in Jim's life there is room for only...