Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper's reporting and writing, cleaned up its typography, expanded the sports section, ran more pictures. On the editorial page, Robinson jumped into fights with both feet, soon made a reputation throughout the South as a strong voice. Despite local drys, the News fought for legalized liquor and thus helped run 400 bootleggers out of business the News ripped the hide off Race-Baiter Bryant Bowles when he spoke in Charlotte. In four years, the News won three first prizes for editorials from the North Carolina Press Association. Publisher Robinson rattled around Charlotte in his battered old Dodge...
Airline passengers who like to take a drink aloft may soon have their spirits dashed. Pilot, steward and stewardess unions have all passed stern anti-liquor resolutions. And Massachusetts Congressman Thomas J. Lane, arguing that tipsy passengers sometimes constitute a safety threat, plans to introduce a bill at the next session of Congress to make inflight liquor service a federal offense. Last week Harold L. Pearson, president of the industry's Air Transport Association, said he had been warned by the Civil Aeronautics Board that liquor-pouring airlines may have to take "corrective steps," sent airline presidents a proposed...
...many a sorry dragon knows, Delta Pinney's Busy Bee liquor store, hard by a lonely El Paso alley, is a bristling castle. Instruments of defense: eight Smith & Wesson .38 pistols strategically sited behind the counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...
...blacks. He is allowed to ride on many of the same streetcars as the whites; he may be a member of a trade union and bargain with employers; he may hold many semiskilled jobs that are forbidden to the black man. In some cities, Coloreds may buy freely at liquor stores, just like the whites. Coloreds may even move from city to city without a pass; the African native...
...weeks after Delaplane's demonstration came a startled cable from Ire land to a San Francisco liquor importer: WHAT'S HAPPENING? The answer: Dela plane had touched off a craze for Irish coffee. In San Francisco's Buena Vista bar alone, consumption of Irish whisky leaped from two cases a year to 1,000 cases, an average of 700 Irish coffees a day. Visitors from some 40-odd cities where Delaplane's column runs turned up in droves to sample the magic dew. The consumption of Irish coffee has become so great that exports of Irish...