Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copper-ore outcroppings, but because of lack of transportation saw no way to mine them at a profit. As late as 1950, when a road finally reached Chibougamau, the town consisted of little more than a rundown general store and a couple of bootleggers who sold illicit liquor to passing trappers. Then, with little fanfare, Campbell Chibougamau Mines Ltd. in 1952 sewed up a U.S. Government contract for its output, the next year started to sink a shaft. Last year it went into production, hauling concentrates laboriously by truck to the railroad at St. Felicien, 125 miles to the southeast...
...from churches and teetotalers soon forced the company into bigger quarters at Westfield, N.Y., the self-anointed "grape-juice capital of the world." Founder Welch's son, square-jawed "Dr. Charles," ran the company "as much as a temperance agency as a profit-making concern," capitalized on anti-liquor sentiment with the slogan: "Get the Welch habit-it's one that won't get you." One of his most successful ads showed a ripe-lipped lass raising a bumper glass of grape juice with the invitation: "The lips that touch Welch's are all that touch...
...Welch's received a powerful endorsement from Woodrow Wilson's Administration, when Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan served grape juice at a state dinner in honor of retiring British Ambassador James Bryce. Next year, when Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels caused a national furor by outlawing hard liquor on naval ships and installations, outraged editorial writers and cartoonists did Welch's the favor of dubbing the U.S. fleet "the grape-juice Navy...
...businessman, this will mean mountain climbing, for the middle-aged fishing or swimming, for the older a walk along a valley road. Later, all will listen to a health lecture, study history and contemporary events. Before dinner, the executive will be permitted to have the day's only liquor−but no more than two drinks. In the evenings, there will be lectures or chambermusic...
...fact, he knows his people so well that in the 14 years he has been pastor of Oklahoma City's First Christian Church, he has managed such pastoral unconventionalities as Sunday evening dances in the church recreational hall, an address to the state legislature urging repeal of liquor prohibition, a race for the U.S. Senate (against "Mike" Monroney), and a quiet domestic interchange (a campaign aide married the former Mrs. Alexander, and Pastor Bill married the ex-wife of the aide, after making the announcement of his second marriage from the pulpit...