Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obtain a better view of the streets leading into the square. But formerly on cold winter evenings, about all a man on the job could get nearby to ease his chill was Turkish cigars and fruits. NOW the traffic controller is but three paces from the Varsity Liquor store...
During the Prohibition era, Johnson was well known at student parties because of his ability to get the best of bootlegged liquor from Canada by way of his old associates on the Pullman trains...
...start buying fall goods until May, has already bought up half its supply of wool clothing, blankets and sweaters. San Francisco's huge Emporium is bulging with all the things that are expected to become hard to get-furniture, woolens, metal goods, etc. Said a New York liquor dealer: "There's so much whisky stacked on Manhattan that an A-bomb blast would plaster half of Philadelphia...
Graves talked a bank into lending him $100, made a down payment on a cigar store and used it profitably as a front for an illegal liquor business. With the new stake, he got back into sheepherding. When other herders told him it couldn't be done, he moved a herd of 25,000 sheep into Kansas to fatten them up on leased wheatfields. By such tricks he managed to cut his costs enough to weather the depression. Later, he bought 1,800 acres dirt cheap in Colorado, cleaned up when prices rose by selling...
World Leadership. In Canberra, Australia, an official explained why the liquor laws in the capital city had been revised to permit 1) hotel barmaids, 2) sale of liquor in grocery stores, and 3) drinking at dances: "We're trying to make the place more like Washington...