Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roll records and quick-frozen Little Bo Pizzas shipped from the U.S.), or in any of the seven handy branch stores (total 1955 sales: $4,100,000). On the way home, they can stop for Scotch or bonded bourbon ($1.20 a fifth) at a Navy-run liquor store...
...LOWER LIQUOR PRICES for hotel room service are kicking up flurry in Manhattan. By chopping prices for Scotch from $12 to $7 a bottle, bourbon from $12.50 to $7.50, Hotel Roosevelt boosted June room-service bottle sales 273%, dollar volume 143%. Other hotels, where prices for Scotch, etc. range as high as $13.50, protest price-cutting, say that they cannot afford lower prices...
...Rome, Italy's Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, waiting to greet a distinguished German visitor, Konrad Adenauer, told of a triumph of toastmanship achieved by the hardheaded, steel-stomached old man on his visit to Moscow last September. Unaware of der Alte's heroic capacity for hard liquor, Communist Party Chief Khrushchev had proposed one toast after another at a state banquet, watching eagerly as the German Chancellor drained glass after glass of vodka. At the end of some 15 toasts, Adenauer was still going strong, and able to note a slight transformation in Khrushchev's drinking pattern...
...harsh but just advocate of discipline, he imposed an iron discipline on himself. A drinker of strong spirits, he swore off hard liquor when war came, would sometimes stretch a glass of beer through a whole evening. In Washington, he lived aboard a ship in the Anacostia River instead of in comfortable quarters with his family, worked hard, savage hours in a small, Spartan office in the Navy Building. He took nonsense from no one, not even his commander in chief, became known as one of the few men in the Government who would resist the charms of Franklin Roosevelt...
...General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches wound up its week-long convention in Omaha with resolutions against racial bias, liquor advertising, and persecution of witnesses by investigating committees. Biggest achievement: approval (after an all-night argument) of plans for merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church under the new name, United Church of Christ...