Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protective Custody. In Portland, Ore., the case of Margine Joyce Ham, accused of selling liquor after legal hours, was continued when the court learned that the arresting officer had drunk up the evidence...
...that 68% of the 3,400 undergraduates planned to move away from Mississippi after graduation. What can the state do to keep its best-educated sons and daughters at home? The students' answer: Mississippi must provide "better schools, more industry, more enlightened public officials, lower taxes, and . . . legalized liquor...
...Caracas department store: BUY TODAY AND PAY TOMORROW! On time payments, women in pipeless hillside shanties buy U.S.-made washing machines, and happily lug water in buckets on their heads to fill them. Specialty shops sell canned Spanish cuttlefish, rhinestone-studded yo-yos, TV sets and a potent local liquor disarmingly called La Economica. The 4,000 millionaires who set "two Cadillacs in every garage" as their standard enjoy such diverse luxuries as art collections, a drive-in that serves chilled martinis, sports-car racing and a nightclub where a cow does...
...since 1952, reported the U.S. Public Health Service. The ailment now ranks fifth (behind measles, VD, scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat, and TB) in prevalence among communicable diseases; last year 49,722 cases were reported (up nearly 50% from 1953). Present standard treatment: rest and a highprotein, liquor-free diet...
Capital Expansion. In Copenhagen, Denmark, church wardens of the Vissenbjerg Unen parish announced they were getting a liquor license for an inn which has lost money ever since they converted it to a temperance hotel 30 years...