Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Brooklynite named Ben Maksik, and he built it from a hot dog stand. When he was cleaned out of the real-estate business by the Depression, Maksik borrowed $200, slapped together a wooden frankfurters-and-Coke stand, gradually expanded it into a nightclub by acquiring a jukebox, liquor and cabaret licenses and a dance floor. Two and a half years ago he borrowed $1,000,000, built his present colossus. The logistics of its operation, he soon found, were staggering. The 40-man kitchen staff is geared to turn out 1,700 meals (broiled sirloins, Chinese combination plates...
...Miles From Zomba. Central Africa's Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland proclaims "racial partnership" as its official policy, but unofficially the color bar is so rigid that Indian and Pakistani diplomats are continually turned away from movie theaters, liquor stores, hotels and restaurants-even when they are guests of whites. The wife of an Indian official was not allowed to enter an elevator in a Salisbury department store, and later was refused admission to a "European" maternity home. A Pakistani trade commissioner who had been an R.A.F. squadron leader during World War II was invited to represent his country...
Conservative voters chose among three slates of Conservative candidates; the Liberals had an official slate plus some splinter candidates. To abet this peacekeeping measure, the ruling military junta firmly banned the sale of liquor for three days, brought out tanks and troops in battle dress. Colombia counted it a historically peaceful poll. Joked a member of the junta: "Maybe we ought to have an election every Sunday...
...Studs Lonigan) Farrel's book, My Baseball Diary, that "Red Ormsby was found broke and dead in a cheap hotel." Not only is Red's health good, but he has been thriving for years. He is both a lecturer and an employee of Chicago's Liquor License Appeal Commission. (Typical lecture topic: "Kill the Umpire.") By killing the umpire prematurely, he charged, Farrell would cost him countless lecture bookings. Ormsby slapped him with a $250,000 suit for damages...
...band-booking agency in 1924. This sideline proved so profitable that Dr. Stein took it up full time. He signed exclusive rights with hotels and ballrooms, thus forcing bandleaders to come to him. M.C.A. bandleaders who became unruly found themselves with poor bookings. Later he developed other sidelines-sold liquor to nightclub owners as part of the deal for a band, sold his musicians insurance, real estate and cars. He also became a successful stock market investor, bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1936, still holds...