Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give and let the faces slip into realignment. The crumbling rock where the slip starts is the epicenter of an earthquake of the kind that often jiggles San Francisco, and once (in 1906) touched off a fire that nearly destroyed all of it except Hotaling's Liquor Warehouse on Jackson St.* and a few other buildings...
Prize Catch. In Manhattan hotels dozens of engineering firms set up plush suites and "hospitality rooms," where liquor and food were plentiful. Radio Corp. of America alone hired nine rooms at the Waldorf-Astoria, kept ten people busy interviewing some 250 engineers. Said RCA Employment Manager John R. Weld: "Convention time recruiting is our largest single effort." Motorola, which last year hired 32 engineers as a result of convention interviews, talked to 234 applicants. Bendix spent $10,000 for its convention recruitment program, which included a six-room hotel suite...
...blue-eyed, and fashionably flat daughter's coming out party. Daughter is none too happy about it all as she has a poor but noble lover. Widow St. Clair is, herself, being courted by the dubious but delightful Sir Peter who doesn't care as long as women and liquor (on the rocks) are free. To add to the tumult, Mrs. St. Clair's long lost brother from Kansas shows up with his wife and lots of socially unaceptable notions. Drama begins when the St. Clair diamonds disappear, and everybody from Peter, to poor but proud, to the butler with...
...under sharp questioning, Schrunk wilted perceptibly. He flatly denied having taken bribes from Clifford Bennett. But he did admit that his deputies had raided the 8212 Club, seen liquor being illegally served after hours, spotted gambling equipment all over the place-and that he had gone away without taking further action...
...said Reporter Browning, is the parents' "rebellious resistance" to immunization shots and other elementary health measures. Chicago's polio outbreak last year was "centered in Southern white migrant areas." Said Miss Browning: "They have the lowest moral code, if any, of any [group], the biggest capacity for liquor and the most savage and vicious tactics when drunk, which is most of the time." Police say that they would need 2,000 extra officers to cope with hillbilly crime; educators have urged special grade-less schools for their children. But short of sending hillbillies back to the hills...